Analysis of Farewell frost, or welcome spring
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appear
Reclothed in fresh and verdant diaper;
Thaw'd are the snows; and now the lusty Spring
Gives to each mead a neat enamelling;
The palms put forth their gems, and every tree
Now swaggers in her leafy gallantry.
The while the Daulian minstrel sweetly sings
With warbling notes her Terean sufferings.
--What gentle winds perspire! as if here
Never had been the northern plunderer
To strip the trees and fields, to their distress,
Leaving them to a pitied nakedness.
And look how when a frantic storm doth tear
A stubborn oak or holm, long growing there,--
But lull'd to calmness, then succeeds a breeze
That scarcely stirs the nodding leaves of trees;
So when this war, which tempest-like doth spoil
Our salt, our corn, our honey, wine, and oil,
Falls to a temper, and doth mildly cast
His inconsiderate frenzy off, at last,
The gentle dove may, when these turmoils cease,
Bring in her bill, once more, the branch of Peace.
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Metre | 1101010101 10101010 1101010101 1111011 01111101001 110010100 010110101 1100101100 110101111 10110101 1101011101 1011011 0111010111 0101111101 1111010101 1101010111 1111110111 1011011010101 1101001101 1110111 010111111 1001110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 953 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 761 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 170 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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