Analysis of A hymn to bacchus
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Bacchus, let me drink no more!
Wild are seas that want a shore!
When our drinking has no stint,
There is no one pleasure in't.
I have drank up for to please
Thee, that great cup, Hercules.
Urge no more; and there shall be
Daffadils giv'n up to thee.
| Scheme | AABCDDCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111 1111101 11010111 11111001 1111111 111110 1110111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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