Analysis of His grange, or private wealth

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



Though clock,
To tell how night draws hence, I've none,
A cock
I have to sing how day draws on:
I have
A maid, my Prue, by good luck sent,
To save
That little, Fates me gave or lent.
A hen
I keep, which, creeking day by day,
Tells when
She goes her long white egg to lay:
A goose
I have, which, with a jealous ear,
Lets loose
Her tongue, to tell what danger's near.
A lamb
I keep, tame, with my morsels fed,
Whose dam
An orphan left him, lately dead:
A cat
I keep, that plays about my house,
Grown fat
With eating many a miching mouse:
To these
A Trasy I do keep, whereby
I please
The more my rural privacy:
Which are
But toys, to give my heart some ease:--
Where care
None is, slight things do lightly please.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11 11111111 01 11111111 11 01111111 11 11011111 01 1111111 11 11011111 01 11110101 11 0111111 01 11111101 11 11011101 01 11110111 11 11010011 11 0111101 11 01110100 11 11111111 11 11111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 687
Words 147
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 32
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 531
Words per stanza (avg) 144
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 09, 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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