Analysis of An Elegy On That Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize
Oliver Goldsmith 1730 (Ballymahon) – 1774 (Brick Court, London)
Good people all, with one accord,
Lament for Madam BLAIZE,
Who never wanted a good word
'From those who spoke her praise'.
The needy seldom pass'd her door,
And always found her kind;
She freely lent to all the poor,
'Who left a pledge behind'.
She strove the neighbourhood to please,
With manners wond'rous winning,
And never follow'd wicked ways,
'Unless when she was sinning'.
At church, in silks and satins new,
With hoop of monstrous size,
She never slumber'd in her pew,
'But when she shut her eyes'.
Her love was sought, I do aver,
By twenty beaux and more;
The king himself has follow'd her,
'When she has walk'd before'.
But now her wealth and finery fled,
Her hangers-on cut short all;
The doctors found, when she was dead,
'Her last disorder mortal'.
Let us lament, in sorrow sore,
For Kent-street well may say,
That had she liv'd a twelve-month more,
'She had not died to-day'.
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XDAD EFEF GBGB HXHX BIBI |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 11011101 011101 11010011 111101 01010101 01101 11011101 110101 110111 110110 01010101 0111110 11010101 111101 1101001 111101 01111110 110101 01011100 111101 110101001 0101111 01011111 0101010 11010101 111111 11110111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 880 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 07, 2023
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