Analysis of "Paint Me As I Am, Warts And All"--Cromwell.
Joseph Horatio Chant 1837 (Stoke Underham, Somersetshire, ) – 1928 (England)
Brave soul, 'twere well if all the same would say,
And artists aim their patron's wish t'obey.
What signifies a wart, or e'en a scar?
Leave both, skilled hand, and paint us as we are.
The crowfeet paint, the wrinkles on the brow,
The hollow cheek, the form inclined to bow,
The tear-dim'd eye, the hair well streaked with gray,
The hardened hand, begrim'd with soot and clay,
And if you use the seer's revealing glass,
Remember this, "All flesh is as the grass."
Scheme | AABBCCAADD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111110111 0101111101 1100111101 1111011111 011010101 0101010111 0111011111 010111101 0111010101 0101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 453 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 350 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on May 02, 2023
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