Analysis of How springs came first
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
These springs were maidens once that loved,
But lost to that they most approved:
My story tells, by Love they were
Turn'd to these springs which we see here:
The pretty whimpering that they make,
When of the banks their leave they take,
Tells ye but this, they are the same,
In nothing changed but in their name.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 11111101 11011110 11111111 010100111 11011111 11111101 01011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 313 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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