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 |
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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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