Analysis of On Certain Ladies
Alexander Pope 1688 (London) – 1744 (Twickenham)
When other fair ones to the shades go down,
Still Chloe, Flavin, Delia, stay in town:
Those ghosts of beauty wandering here reside,
And haunt the places where their honour died.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101110111 1101010101 11110100101 010101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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