Analysis of To Eliza
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect,
Who to woman deny the soul's future existence!
Could they see thee, Eliza, they'd own their defect,
And this doctrine would meet with a general resistance.
Had their prophet possess'd half an atom of sense,
He ne'er would have woman from paradise driven;
Instead of his houris, a flimsy pretence,
With woman alone he had peopled his heaven.
Yet still, to increase your calamities more,
Not Content with depriving your bodies of spirit,
He allots one poor husband to share amongst four!-
With souls you'd dispense; but this last, who could bear it?
His religion to please neither party is made;
On husbands 'tis hard, to the wives most uncivil;
Still I Can't contradict, what so oft has been said,
'Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.'
Scheme | ABAB XCBC DXDX XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 010111011 1110010110010 111101011110 01101110100010 111001111011 11111011010 011110101 110011110110 11101101001 1101010110110 101111011011 111011111111 101011101011 110111011010 11101111111 11011011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 802 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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