Analysis of His mistress to him at his farewell
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
You may vow I'll not forget
To pay the debt
Which to thy memory stands as due
As faith can seal it you.
--Take then tribute of my tears;
So long as I have fears
To prompt me, I shall ever
Languish and look, but thy return see never.
Oh then to lessen my despair,
Print thy lips into(the air,
So by this
Means, I may kiss thy kiss,
Whenas some kind
Wind
Shall hither waft it:--And, in lieu,
My lips shall send a thousand back to you.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101 1101 111100111 111111 1110111 111111 1111110 10011101110 11110101 1110101 111 111111 111 1 11011001 1111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 425 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 326 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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