Analysis of To E---
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Let Folly smile, to view the names
Of thee and me in friendship twined;
Yet Virtue will have greater claims
To love, than rank with vice combined.
And though unequal is thy fate,
Since title deck'd my higher claims
Yet envy not this gaudy state;
Thine is the pride of modest worth.
Our souls at least congenial meet,
Nor can thy lot my rank disgrace;
Our intercourse is not less sweet,
Since worth of rank supplies the place.
Scheme | ABAB CACX DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11011101 11010101 11011101 11111101 01010111 11011101 11011101 11011101 101110101 11111101 10101111 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 435 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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