Analysis of On Bishop Burnet's Being Set On Fire In His Closet
Thomas Parnell 1679 (Dublin) – 1718
From that dire æra, bane to Sarum's pride,
Which broke his schemes and laid his friends aside,
He talks and writes that Pop'ry will return,
And we, and he, and all his works will burn.
What touch'd himself was almost fairly prov'd,
(Oh, far from Britain be the rest remov'd!)
For, as of late he meant to bless the age
With flagrant Prefaces of party-rage,
O'er-wrought with passion and the subject's weight,
Lolling, he nodded in his elbow-seat,
Down fell the candle; Grease and Zeal conspire,
Heat meets with heat, and Pamphlets burn their Sire.
Here crawls a Preface on its half-burn'd maggots,
And there an Introduction brings its faggots;
Then roars the Prophet of the Northern Nation,
Scorch'd by a flaming speech on Moderation.
Unwarn'd by this, go on the realm to fright,
Thou Briton, vaunting in thy second-sight;
In such a Ministry you safely tell,
How much you'd suffer, if Religion fell.
Scheme | AABBCCDDXXEEFFGG HHII |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111111 1111011101 110111101 0101011111 110111101 1111010101 1111111101 11011101 10111000101 101100111 11010101010 11110101110 11010111110 011010111 11010101010 1101011010 111110111 110101101 0101001101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 889 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 348 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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