Analysis of God Bless Our Good and Gracious King
Lord John Wilmot 1647 (Ditchley, Oxfordshire) – 1680 (Woodstock, Oxfordshire)
God bless our good and gracious kind,
Whose promise none relies on,
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010101 1101011 11010101 1101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 129 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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