Analysis of The Hour-glass
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
That hour-glass which there you see
With water fill'd, sirs, credit me,
The humour was, as I have read,
But lovers' tears incrystalled.
Which, as they drop by drop do pass
From th' upper to the under-glass,
Do in a trickling manner tell,
By many a watery syllable,
That lovers' tears in lifetime shed
Do restless run when they are dead.
Scheme | AABBCCDEBB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011111 11011101 0111111 11011 11111111 1111010101 10010101 1100100100 1101011 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 335 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 259 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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