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 |
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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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