Analysis of Friendship Between Ephelia And Ardelia
Anne Kingsmill Finch 1661 – 1720 (Westminster)
Eph. What Friendship is, ARDELIA shew.
Ard. 'Tis to love, as I love You.
Eph. This Account, so short (tho' kind)
Suits not my enquiring Mind.
Therefore farther now repeat;
What is Friendship when complete?
Ard. 'Tis to share all Joy and Grief;
'Tis to lend all due Relief
From the Tongue, the Heart, the Hand;
'Tis to mortgage House and Land;
For a Friend be sold a Slave;
'Tis to die upon a Grave,
If a Friend therein do lie.
Eph. This indeed, tho' carry'd high,
This, tho' more than e'er was done
Underneath the rolling Sun,
This has all been said before.
Can ARDELIA say no more?
Ard. Words indeed no more can shew:
But 'tis to love, as I love you.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIAA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (45%) |
Metre | 1110101001 11111111 11011111 11111 110101 1110101 11111101 1111101 1010101 1110101 1011101 1110101 1010111 1101111 11111011 010101 1111101 10100111 11011111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 669 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 484 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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