Analysis of To Her Father with Some Verses
Anne Bradstreet 1612 (Northampton) – 1672 (Andover)
Most truly honoured, and as truly dear,
If worth in me or ought I do appear,
Who can of right better demand the same
Than may your worthy self from whom it came?
The principal might yield a greater sum,
Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb;
My stock's so small I know not how to pay,
My bond remains in force unto this day;
Yet for part payment take this simple mite,
Where nothing's to be had, kings loose their right.
Such is my debt I may not say forgive,
But as I can, I'll pay it while I live;
Such is my bond, none can discharge but I,
Yet paying is not paid until I die.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101101 1101111101 1111100101 1111011111 0100110101 1101011111 1111111111 1101011011 1111011101 1101111111 1111111101 1111111111 1111110111 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 444 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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