Analysis of Herbal
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Love-lies-bleeding now is found
Grown in every common ground.
Love-lies-bleeding thrives apace
With the dear forget-me-not:
Nor is boy's love out of place
Now in any garden plot.
Love-in-a-mist, bewilderèd
With the many tears Love shed,
Seeks for herb-o'-grace to bind
Up her wounds, and fever-few
To give ease to a hurt mind;
Wound-wort is not wanting too.
Now the love-lies-bleeding grows
More than lily or the rose;
Love-in-idleness has gone
Out of fashion; here are flowers
Heartsease for to rest upon
With remembrance of sweet hours.
Ladders-to-heaven may be found
Now in any common ground.
Scheme | AABCBC XXDEDE FFXGXG AA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1110111 10100101 1110101 1010111 1111111 1010101 10010101 1010111 1111111 1010101 1111011 1111101 1011101 1110101 1010011 11101110 111101 10101110 10110111 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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