Analysis of Comfort to a youth that had lost his love

Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)



What needs complaints,
When she a place
Has with the race
Of saints?
In endless mirth,
She thinks not on
What's said or done
In earth:
She sees no tears,
Or any tone
Of thy deep groan
She hears;
Nor does she mind,
Or think on't now,
That ever thou
Wast kind:--
But changed above,
She likes not there,
As she did here,
Thy love.
--Forbear, therefore,
And lull asleep
Thy woes, and weep
No more.


Scheme ABBACDECFGGHIJJIKLMKNOON
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 1101 1101 11 0101 1111 1111 01 1111 1101 1111 11 1111 11111 1101 11 1101 1111 1111 11 11 0101 1101 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 378
Words 79
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 295
Words per stanza (avg) 76
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was born in London, England, in 1591. He was apprenticed to a goldsmith (his uncle, Sir William), but went to Cambridge, at St John's, in 1613. He was ordained at Peterborough in 1623 and became chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham a few years later. "Hesperides" - a collection of 1200 lyrical poems - was published in 1648 and it remained his magnum opus. Herrick died in 1674, aged 83. more…

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