Analysis of Lisetta's Reply

Matthew Prior 1664 – 1721



Sure Cloe Just, and Cloe Fair
Deserves to be Your only Care:
But when You and She to-day
Far into the Wood did stray,
And I happen'd to pass by;
Which way did You cast your Eye?
But when your Cares to Her You sing,
Yet dare not tell Her whence they spring;
Does it not more afflict your Heart,
That in those Cares She bears a Part?
When You the Flow'rs for Cloe twine,
Why do You to Her Garland join
The meanest Bud that falls from Mine?
Simplest of Swains! the World may see,
Whom Cloe loves, and Who loves Me.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111011 01111101 1110111 1010111 0110111 1111111 11111011 11110111 11110111 10111101 1101111 11110101 01011111 10110111 1110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 505
Words 105
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 391
Words per stanza (avg) 103
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Matthew Prior

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