Analysis of To Lady Carteret

Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)



FROM India's burning clime I'm brought,
With cooling gales like zephyrs fraught.
Not Iris, when she paints the sky,
Can show more different hues than I;
Nor can she change her form so fast,
I'm now a sail, and now a mast.
I here am red, and there am green,
A beggar there, and here a queen.
I sometimes live in house of hair,
And oft in hand of lady fair.
I please the young, I grace the old,
And am at once both hot and cold.
Say what I am then, if you can,
And find the rhyme, and you're the man.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 110010111 11011101 11011101 111100111 11110111 11010101 11110111 01010101 10110111 01011101 11011101 01111101 11111111 01010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 493
Words 105
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 371
Words per stanza (avg) 103
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. more…

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