Analysis of To my Sister Anne King, who chid me in verse for being angry

Henry King 1592 (Worminghall, Buckinghamshire) – 1669 (Chichester)



Dear Nan, I would not have thy counsel lost,
Though I last night had twice so much been crost;
Well is a Passion to the Market brought,
When such a treasure of advice is bought
With so much dross. And could'st thou me assure,
Each vice of mine should meet with such a cure,
I would sin oft, and on my guilty brow
Wear every misperfection that I ow,
Open and visible; I should not hide
But bring my faults abroad: to hear thee chide
In such a Note, and with a Quill so sage,
It Passion tunes, and calmes a Tempests rage.
Well I am charm'd, and promise to redress
What, without shrift, my follies doe confess
Against my self: wherefore let me intreat,
When I fly out in that distemper'd heat
Which frets me into fasts, thou wilt reprove
That froward spleen in Poetry and Love:
So though I lose my reason in such fits,
Thoul't rime me back again into my wits.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 864
Words 167
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 664
Words per stanza (avg) 165
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry King

Henry King was an English poet who served as Bishop of Chichester. more…

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