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 |
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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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