This is an analysis of To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old, The Author Suppos'D Forty by Matthew Prior.
Lords, knights, and squires, the num'rous band,
That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede bfbf ghgh fbfb ihih
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111100101 110111010 01010101 011101110 11010111 11111101 111101011 01110001 110011010 01111101 110101110 11111111 11110111 01010111 11011101 01010101 11011111 1101010110 111011001 111101010 11011111 01110101 11110111 11110101 111100101 110111110 11101101 110101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
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