Analysis of Upon a Table-Book presented to a Lady
Henry King 1592 (Worminghall, Buckinghamshire) – 1669 (Chichester)
VVhen your fair hand receives this little book
You must not there for prose or verses look.
Those empty regions which within you see,
May by your self planted and peopled be:
And though we scarce allow your sex to prove
Writers (unless the Argument be Love);
Yet without crime or envy you have roome
Here, both the Scribe and Author to become.
| Scheme | AABBCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011101 1111111101 1101010111 1111100101 0111011111 1001010011 1011110111 1101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 351 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 273 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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