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.'


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGG
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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Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont, judge, was the eldest son of John Beaumont, sometime master of the rolls, by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Hastings. more…

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