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.
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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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