Analysis of To Lord Thurlow
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
'I lay my branch of laurel down.
Then thus to form Apollo's crown.
Let every other bring his own.'~Lord Thurlow's lines to Mr. Rogers
'I lay my branch of laurel down.'
Thou 'lay thy branch of laurel down!'
Why, what thou'st stole is not enow;
And, were it lawfully thine own,
Does Rogers want it most, or thou?
Keep to thyself thy wither'd bough,
Or send it back to Doctor Donne:
Were justice done to both, I trow,
He'd have but little, and thou--none.
'Then thus to form Apollo's crown.'
A crown! why, twist it how you will,
Thy chaplet must be foolscap still.
When next you visit Delphi's town,
Inquire amongst your fellow-lodgers,
They'll tell you Phoebus gave his crown,
Some years before your birth, to Rogers.
'Let every other bring his own.'
When coals to Newcastle are carried,
And owls sent to Athens, as wonders,
From his spouse when the R egent's unmarried,
Or Liverpool weeps o'er his blunders;
When Tories and Whigs cease to quarrel,
When Castlereagh's wife has an heir,
Then Rogers shall ask us for laurel,
And thou shalt have plenty to spare.
Scheme | AAb Aaacddexe Affabab cgbgbhihi |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 11110101 11001011111111010 11111101 11111101 11111111 00110011 11011111 1111101 11111101 01011111 11110011 11110101 01111111 111111 1111011 01011101 11110111 110111110 110010111 11110110 011110110 1111011110 110110110 110011110 111111 110111110 01111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,045 |
Words | 195 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 9, 7, 9 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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