Analysis of No fault in women

Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)



No fault in women, to refuse
The offer which they most would chuse.
--No fault: in women, to confess
How tedious they are in their dress;
--No fault in women, to lay on
The tincture of vermilion;
And there to give the cheek a dye
Of white, where Nature doth deny.
--No fault in women, to make show
Of largeness, when they're nothing so;
When, true it is, the outside swells
With inward buckram, little else.
--No fault in women, though they be
But seldom from suspicion free;
--No fault in womankind at all,
If they but slip, and never fall.


Scheme AABBCDEEFFGHIIJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 01011111 11010101 110011011 11010111 0101010 01110101 11110101 11010111 11011101 11110111 1101101 11010111 11010101 110111 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 534
Words 103
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 409
Words per stanza (avg) 101
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was born in London, England, in 1591. He was apprenticed to a goldsmith (his uncle, Sir William), but went to Cambridge, at St John's, in 1613. He was ordained at Peterborough in 1623 and became chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham a few years later. "Hesperides" - a collection of 1200 lyrical poems - was published in 1648 and it remained his magnum opus. Herrick died in 1674, aged 83. more…

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