Analysis of All things decay and die
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
All things decay with time: The forest sees
The growth and down-fall of her aged trees;
That timber tall, which three-score lustres stood
The proud dictator of the state-like wood,
I mean the sovereign of all plants, the oak,
Droops, dies, and falls without the cleaver's stroke.
Scheme | AABBCC |
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Poetic Form | Sestain |
Metre | 1101110101 010111011 110111111 0101010111 1101011101 110101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 283 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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