Analysis of Anacreontic
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Born I was to be old,
And for to die here;
After that, in the mould
Long for to lie here.
But before that day comes,
Still I be bousing;
For I know, in the tombs
There's no carousing.
| Scheme | ABABCDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 01111 101001 11111 101111 1111 111001 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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