Analysis of To The Right Honourable The Lady Elizabeth Brownlow,

Mary Barber 1685 – 1755



Who can the hardest Task refuse,
When lovely Lady Betty sues?
If her Requests Resistance find,
It must be from the Deaf and Blind.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Tanaga 
Metre 11010101 11010101 10010101 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 135
Words 26
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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