Analysis of Easter Song

George Herbert 1593 (Montgomery) – 1633 (Bemerton)



I Got me flowers to straw Thy way,  
I got me boughs off many a tree;  
But Thou wast up by break of day,  
And brought’st Thy sweets along with Thee.  

The sunne arising in the East,          
Though he give light, and th’ East perfume,  
If they should offer to contest  
With Thy arising, they presume.  

Can there be any day but this,  
Though many sunnes to shine endeavour?         
We count three hundred, but we misse:  
There is but one, and that one ever.


Scheme ABAB XCXC DEDE
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111101111 111111001 11111111 01110111 01010001 1111011101 11110110 11010101 11110111 110111010 11110111 111101110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 468
Words 86
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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George Herbert

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