Analysis of To music, to becalm a sweet sick youth
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Charms, that call down the moon from out her sphere,
On this sick youth work your enchantments here!
Bind up his senses with your numbers, so
As to entrance his pain, or cure his woe.
Fall gently, gently, and a-while him keep
Lost in the civil wilderness of sleep:
That done, then let him, dispossess'd of pain,
Like to a slumbering bride, awake again.
| Scheme | ABCCDDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011101 11111111 1111011101 1110111111 1101000111 1001010011 111110111 11010010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 353 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 273 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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