Analysis of To Quilca, A Country-House in no very good Repair
Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)
Let me thy Properties explain,
A rotten Cabin, dropping Rain;
Chimnies with Scorn rejecting Smoak;
Stools, Tables, Chairs, and Bed-steds broke:
Here Elements have lost their Vses,
Air ripens not, nor Earth produces:
In vain we make poor Sheelah toil,
Fire will not roast, nor Water boil.
Thro' all the Vallies, Hills, and Plains,
The Goddess Want in Triumph reigns;
And her chief Officers of State,
Sloth, Dirt, and Theft around her wait.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110001 01010101 1110101 11010111 11001111 11111010 01111101 101111101 1101101 01010101 00110011 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 435 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 342 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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