Analysis of Proof to No Purpose
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
You see this gentle stream that glides,
Shoved on, by quick-succeeding tides:
Try if this sober stream you can
Follow to th' wider ocean,
And see, if there it keeps unspent
In that congesting element.
Next, from that world of waters, then
By pores and caverns back again
Induct that inadultrate same
Stream to the spring from whence it came.
This with a wonder when ye do,
As easy, and else easier too:
Then ye may recollect the grains
Of my particular remains,
After a thousand lusters hurled,
By roughing winds, around the world.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 11110101 11110111 101111010 01111101 011100 11111101 11010101 01111 11011111 11010111 110011001 1110101 11010001 1001011 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 531 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 420 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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