Analysis of Felicity quick of flight
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Every time seems short to be
That's measured by felicity;
But one half-hour that's made up here
With grief, seems longer than a year.
Scheme | AABC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011111 11010100 111101111 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 138 |
Words | 26 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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