Analysis of The changes: to corinna
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Be not proud, but now incline
Your soft ear to discipline;
You have changes in your life,
Sometimes peace, and sometimes strife;
You have ebbs of face and flows,
As your health or comes or goes;
You have hopes, and doubts, and fears,
Numberless as are your hairs;
You have pulses that do beat
High, and passions less of heat;
You are young, but must be old:--
And, to these, ye must be told,
Time, ere long, will come and plow
Loathed furrows in your brow:
And the dimness of your eye
Will no other thing imply,
But you must die
As well as I.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1111100 1110011 0110011 1111101 1111111 1110101 11111 1110111 1010111 1111111 0111111 1111101 11011 001111 1110101 1111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 413 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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