Analysis of A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)
A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick.
| Scheme | A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010101001011100100110010111011001101010101 |
| Characters | 168 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1 |
| Lines Amount | 1 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 137 |
| Words per line (avg) | 29 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on July 14, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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