Analysis of On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament
John Milton 1608 (Cheapside) – 1674 (Chalfont St Giles)
Because you have thrown off your Prelate Lord,
And with stiff vows renounced his Liturgy,
To seize the widowed whore Plurality,
From them whose sin ye envied, not abhorred,
Dare ye for this adjure the civil sword
To force our consciences that Christ set free,
And ride us with a Classic Hierarchy,
Taught ye by mere A. S. and Rutherford?
Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent,
Would have been held in high esteem with Paul
Must now be named and printed heretics
By shallow Edwards and Scotch What-d’ye-call!
But we do hope to find out all your tricks,
Your plots and packing, worse than those of Trent,
That so the Parliament
May with their wholesome and preventive shears
Clip your phylacteries, though baulk your ears,
And succour our just fears,
When they shall read this clearly in your charge:
New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large.
Scheme | ABBAABBCDEFEFDGFFFHH |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 0111111101 0111011100 1101010100 1111110101 111110101 11101001111 0111010100 1111010100 1111010101 1111010111 11110101 1101001111 1111111111 1101011111 110100 1111000101 1111111 011011 1111110011 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 863 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 679 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 149 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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