Analysis of A Self Accuser
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
Your mistress, that you follow whores, still taxeth
you ;
'Tis strange that she should thus confess it, though 't be true.
| Scheme | ABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 1101110111 1 1111110111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 128 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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