Analysis of Another Grace For A Child
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Here a little child I stand
Heaving up my either hand;
Cold as paddocks though they be,
Here I lift them up to Thee,
For a benison to fall
On our meat, and on us all. Amen.
| Scheme | AABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111 1011101 111111 1111111 10111 1101011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 175 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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