Analysis of Ceremony upon candlemas eve
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Down with the rosemary, and so
Down with the bays and misletoe;
Down with the holly, ivy, all
Wherewith ye dress'd the Christmas hall;
That so the superstitious find
No one least branch there left behind;
For look, how many leaves there be
Neglected there, maids, trust to me,
So many goblins you shall see.
Scheme | ABCCBBDDD |
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Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
Metre | 1101001 110101 11010101 1110101 1100101 11111101 11110111 01011111 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 307 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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