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?


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGG
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

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Sir George Etherege

Sir George Etherege (c. 1636, Maidenhead, Berkshire – c. 10 May 1692, Paris) was an English dramatist. He wrote the plays The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub in 1664, "She Would if She Could" in 1668, and The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter in 1676. more…

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