Analysis of On A Very Old Glass At Market-Hill
Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)
Frail glass! thou mortal art as well as I;
Though none can tell which of us first shall die.
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1111011111 1111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 99 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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