Analysis of To his verses
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
What will ye, my poor orphans, do,
When I must leave the world and you;
Who'll give ye then a sheltering shed,
Or credit ye, when I am dead?
Who'll let ye by their fire sit,
Although ye have a stock of wit,
Already coin'd to pay for it?
--I cannot tell: unless there be
Some race of old humanity
Left, of the large heart and long hand,
Alive, as noble Westmorland;
Or gallant Newark; which brave two
May fost'ring fathers be to you.
If not, expect to be no less
Ill used, than babes left fatherless.
Scheme | AABBCCCDDEAAAFG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111101 11110101 111101001 11011111 11111101 1110111 01011111 11010111 11110100 11011011 011101 11010111 1110111 11011111 11111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 377 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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