Analysis of To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
John Milton 1608 (Cheapside) – 1674 (Chalfont St Giles)
Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old,
Than whom a better senator ne’er held
The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled
The fierce Epirot and the African bold,
Whether to settle peace, or to unfold
The drift of hollow states hard to be spelled;
Then to advise how war may best, upheld,
Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold,
In all her equipage; besides, to know
Both spiritual power and civil, what each means,
What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done.
The bounds of either sword to thee we owe:
Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans
In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
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Metre | 1101101101 1101010011 0111111101 011001001 1011011101 0111011111 1101111101 1101111001 01010111 1100010010111 11011111111 0111011111 111110101 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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