Analysis of To the lady crewe, upon the death of her child
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Why, Madam, will ye longer weep,
Whenas your baby's lull'd asleep?
And, pretty child, feels now no more
Those pains it lately felt before.
All now is silent; groans are fled;
Your child lies still, yet is not dead,
But rather like a flower hid here,
To spring again another year.
Scheme | AABB CCXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11011101 1110101 01011111 11110101 11110111 11111111 110101011 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 280 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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