Analysis of Song
Sir George Etherege 1636 (Maidenhead, Berkshire) – 1691 (Paris)
LADIES, though to your conquering eyes
Love owes his chiefest victories,
And borrows those bright arms from you
With which he does the world subdue,
Yet you yourselves are not above
The empire nor the griefs of love.
Then rack not lovers with disdain,
Lest Love on you revenge their pain:
You are not free because you're fair:
The Boy did not his Mother spare.
Beauty 's but an offensive dart:
It is no armour for the heart.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111001 1111100 01011111 11110101 11011101 010010111 11110101 11110111 11110111 01111101 101110101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 432 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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