Analysis of In Imitation Of Anacreon
Matthew Prior 1664 – 1721
Let 'em Censure: what care I?
The Herd of Criticks I defie.
Let the Wretches know, I write
Regardless of their Grace, or Spight.
No, no: the Fair, the Gay, the Young
Govern the Numbers of my Song.
All that They approve is sweet:
And All is Sense, that They repeat.
Bid the warbling Nine retire:
Venus, String thy Servant's Lyre:
Love shall be my endless Theme:
Pleasure shall triumph over Fame:
And when these Maxims I decline,
Apollo, may Thy Fate be Mine:
May I grasp at empty Praise;
And lose the Nymph, to gain the Bays.
Scheme | ABCCDEFFGGHIJJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 011111 101111 01011111 11010101 10010111 1110111 01111101 10100101 101111 1111101 10110101 01110101 01011111 1111101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 400 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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