Analysis of On The Trust
Thomas Parnell 1679 (Dublin) – 1718
Think England what it is to shake,
& better use your King,
His power raisd the frozen snake,
& Must he when he hears it speak,
find how the tongue can sting?
Trustees you make in long debates,
Which he is forcd to give;
While by your trust the rebell getts,
The subject looses bought estates,
& the oppressors live.
Pitty us heaven, & lend your aid,
Anothers intrest sett us free,
& now it gives us slavery,
Thus weakness is a property,
& Greatness still obeyd.
The men whose heavy arms we feel
By Politicks are good or ill,
Deceiving, or deceivd;
Their law is founded on their will,
& our's by that inslavd.
Against their princes acts they rise,
& in their princes name;
The sly intreaguing factions choice,
& erring patriots shame.
So Dunghill foggs by fiery rays
To saucy empire scale,
Obscure the royall planetts face,
With pride supply a lofty place,
& with out pitty fall.
Scheme | ABACBDEFDGHIIIHJKHKHLMNMOPQQR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 10111 11010101 1111111 110111 1110101 111111 1111011 00110101 00101 1110111 11111 1111100 11010100 1011 01110111 111111 01011 11110111 1111 01110111 01101 011101 101001 11111001 1101001 0101011 11010101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 859 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 29 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 678 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 161 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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