Analysis of Dryden and Pope
James McIntyre 1828 (Forres) – 1906
Of our Laureate we now do sing-
His youthful muse had daring wing,
He then despised Baronhood,
And sang 'twas noble to be good.
None sang like him of knights of old,
He England's glory did uphold,
In wondrous song he hath arrayed.
Glorious charge of light brigade.
And he hath the people's benison.
Greatest of living poets, Tennyson.
Genius of Dryden and of Pope,
Both did take a mighty scope ;
The first he Virgil did translate,
The second showed us Troy's fate.
On English themes they loved to sing,
And high their muses flight did wing.
Scheme | AABBBBBBCC DDBBAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101001111 11011101 11011 01110111 11111111 11010101 01011101 10011101 0110101 1011010100 10110011 1110101 01110101 0101111 11011111 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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