Analysis of On An Ill-Managed House
Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)
LET me thy properties explain:
A rotten cabin dropping rain:
Chimneys, with scorn rejecting smoke;
Stools, tables, chairs, and bedsteads broke.
Here elements have lost their uses,
Air ripens not, nor earth produces:
In vain we make poor Sheelah toil,
Fire will not roast, nor water boil.
Through all the valleys, hills, and plains,
The Goddess Want, in triumph reigns:
And her chief officers of state,
Sloth, Dirt, and Theft, around her wait.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110001 01010101 10110101 1101011 110011110 11111010 01111101 101111101 11010101 01010101 00110011 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 450 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 346 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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