Analysis of The primrose
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Ask me why I send you here
This sweet Infanta of the year?
Ask me why I send to you
This Primrose, thus bepearl'd with dew?
I will whisper to your ears,--
The sweets of love are mixt with tears.
Ask me why this flower does show
So yellow-green, and sickly too?
Ask me why the stalk is weak
And bending, yet it doth not break?
I will answer,--these discover
What fainting hopes are in a lover.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 111101 1111111 111111 1110111 01111111 11111011 11010101 1110111 01011111 11101010 110110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 389 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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