Analysis of Money makes the mirth
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
When all birds else do of their music fail,
Money's the still-sweet-singing nightingale!
Scheme | AA |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1111111101 1001110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 95 |
Words | 15 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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