Analysis of Bitter-Sweet
George Herbert 1593 (Montgomery) – 1633 (Bemerton)
Ah, my dear angry Lord,
Since thou dost love, yet strike;
Cast down, yet help afford;
Sure I will do the like.
I will complain, yet praise;
I will bewail, approve;
And all my sour-sweet days
I will lament and love.
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 111101 111111 111101 111101 110111 11101 0111011 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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