Analysis of Answer To The Following Question Of Mrs Howe.
Alexander Pope 1688 (London) – 1744 (Twickenham)
What is prudery?
'Tis a bledam,
Seen with wit and beauty seldom.
'Tis a fear that starts at shadows.
Tis, (no, 'tisn't) like Miss Meadows.
'Tis a virgin hard of feature,
Old, and void of all good-nature;
Lean and fretful; would seem wise;
Yet plays the fool before she dies.
'Tis an ugly, envious shrew,
That rails at dear Lepell and you.
| Scheme | A BBCCDDEEAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11100 101 11101010 1011111 111111 10101110 10111110 1010111 11010111 11101001 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 331 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 10 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
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