Analysis of The Rosary

Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)



One asked me where the roses grew:
I bade him not go seek,
But forwith bade my Julia show
A bud in either cheek.


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Ballad stanza
Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 11110101 111111 1111101 010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 117
Words 26
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was born in London, England, in 1591. He was apprenticed to a goldsmith (his uncle, Sir William), but went to Cambridge, at St John's, in 1613. He was ordained at Peterborough in 1623 and became chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham a few years later. "Hesperides" - a collection of 1200 lyrical poems - was published in 1648 and it remained his magnum opus. Herrick died in 1674, aged 83. more…

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