Analysis of To music: a song
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Music, thou queen of heaven, care-charming spell,
That strik'st a stillness into hell;
Thou that tam'st tigers, and fierce storms, that rise,
With thy soul-melting lullabies;
Fall down, down, down, from those thy chiming spheres
To charm our souls, as thou enchant'st our ears.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 10111101101 11010011 11111001111 1111010 111111111 1110111011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 280 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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