Analysis of The bubble: a song
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
To my revenge, and to her desperate fears,
Fly, thou made bubble of my sighs and tears!
In the wild air, when thou hast roll'd about,
And, like a blasting planet, found her out;
Stoop, mount, pass by to take her eye--then glare
Like to a dreadful comet in the air:
Next, when thou dost perceive her fixed sight
For thy revenge to be most opposite,
Then, like a globe, or ball of wild-fire, fly,
And break thyself in shivers on her eye!
Scheme | ABCCDDEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101010101 1111011101 0011111101 0101010101 1111110111 1101010001 111101011 1101111100 11011111101 011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 434 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 330 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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