Analysis of The definition of beauty
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Beauty no other thing is, than a beam
Flash'd out between the middle and extreme.
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1011011101 1101010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 88 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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