Analysis of Pernicious Weed!
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,
Makes half a sentence at a time enough;
The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,
Then pause and puff, and speak, and pause again.
Such often, like the tube they so admire,
Important triflers! have more smoke than fire.
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,
Unfriendly to society's chief joys,
Thy worst effect is banishing for hours
The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
Scheme | AABCDEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0111011 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 0101111110 0101110101 0101010011 11011100110 01110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 418 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 334 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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