Analysis of Lines Written Extempore On Mr. Harley’s Being Stabbed, And Addressed To His Physician, 1710-11
Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)
On Britain Europe's safety lies,
Britain is lost if Harley dies:
Harley depends upon your skill:
Think what you save, or what you kill.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain Tanaga |
| Metre | 11010101 10111101 10010111 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 140 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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