Analysis of Upon the Silent Woman
Francis Beaumont 1584 (Grace-Dieu) – 1616 (London)
Hear, you bad writers, and though you not see,
I will inform you where you happy be:
Provide the most malicious thoughts you can,
And bend them all against some private man,
To bring him, not his vices, on the stage;
Your envy shall be clad in some poor rage,
And your expressing of him shall be such,
That he himself shall think he hath no touch.
Where he that strongly writes, although he mean
To scourge but vices in a laboured scene,
Yet private faults shall be so well express'd
As men do get 'em, that each private breast,
That finds these errors in itself, shall say,
'He meant me, not my vices, in the play.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001111 1101111101 0101010111 0111011101 1111110101 1101110111 0101011111 1101111111 111101111 111100011 1101111101 1111111101 1111000111 1111110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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