Analysis of No pains, no gains

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



If little labour, little are our gains;
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.


Scheme AA
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1101101101 1101010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 89
Words 16
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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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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