Analysis of Written In Montaignes Essays. Given To The Duke Of Shrewsbury In France, After The Peace
Matthew Prior 1664 – 1721
Dictate, O mighty judge, what thou hast seen
Of cities and of courts, of books and men,
And deign to let thy servant hold the pen.
Through ages, thus, I may presume to live,
And from the transcript of thy prose receive
What my own short-lived verse can never give.
Thus shall fair Britain, with a gracious smile,
Accept the work, and the instructed isle
For more than treaties made shall bless my toil.
Nor longer hence the Gallic style preferr'd,
Wisdom in English idiom shall be heard,
While Talbot tells the world where Montaigne err'd.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011111 1100111101 0111110101 1101110111 010111101 1111111101 1111010101 0101000101 1111011111 1101010101 10010100111 110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 536 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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