Analysis of The coming of good luck
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
So Good-Luck came, and on my roof did light,
Like noiseless snow, or as the dew of night;
Not all at once, but gently,--as the trees
Are by the sun-beams, tickled by degrees.
Scheme | AABB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111011111 111110111 1111110101 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 179 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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