Analysis of On Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting with a Friend About a Gown and Hat
Samuel Johnson 1709 (Lichfield) – 1784 (London)
Wear the gown and wear the hat,
Snatch thy pleasures while they last;
Hadst thou nine lives, like a cat,
Soon those nine lives would be pass'd.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1010101 1110111 1111101 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 148 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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