Analysis of To Daffodils
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray'd together, we
Will go with you along.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer's rain;
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
Ne'er to be found again.
Scheme | ABCBDDCEAE FGDGHHDXFX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101111 110111 11010101 110111 11 010101 11 110101 01010101 111101 11111111 111101 11011101 11110 11 1110101 01 110101 11011101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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