Analysis of Occasion'd By Seeing The Honourable --- Treat A Person Of Merit With Insolence
Mary Barber 1685 – 1755
Contented in my humble State,
I look with Pity on the Great;
Who only Birth, or Wealth, respect,
And treat true Merit with neglect.
O Pow'r supreme! let me implore
Some Little from thy boundless Store!
Give me a constant, small Support,
Without the Plague of paying Court!
Let none but Fools, who pine to rise,
Be curs'd to bow, where they despise.
| Scheme | AABB CCDDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 01001101 11110101 11011101 01110101 111011101 11011101 11010101 01011101 11111111 11111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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