Analysis of To a Very Young Lady
Sir George Etherege 1636 (Maidenhead, Berkshire) – 1691 (Paris)
Sweetest bud of beauty, may
No untimely frost decay
Th' early glories which we trace
Blooming in thy matchless face:
But kindly opening, like the rose,
Fresh beauties every day disclose,
Such as by Nature are not shown
In all the blossoms she has blown:
And then, what conquest shall you make,
Who hearts already daily take!
Scorch'd in the morning with thy beams,
How shall we bear those sad extremes
Which must attend thy threat'ning eyes
When thou shalt to thy noon arise?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 1010101 111010111 100111 110100101 110100101 11110111 01010111 01110111 11010101 10010111 11111101 11011111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 525 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 378 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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