This is an analysis of To Lady Firebrace by Samuel Johnson.
At length must Suffolk beauties shine in vain,
So long renown'd in B-n's deathless strain?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXcX
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 1111010101 1101011101 11111100101 1101010101 1111011101 1111110 111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
