Analysis of The wounded heart
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Come, bring your sampler, and with art
Draw in't a wounded heart,
And dropping here and there;
Not that I think that any dart
Can make your's bleed a tear,
Or pierce it any where;
Yet do it to this end,--that I
May by
This secret see,
Though you can make
That heart to bleed, your's ne'er will ache
For me,
| Scheme | AABABBCCDEED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110011 1010101 010101 11111101 111101 111101 11111111 11 1101 1111 11111111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 303 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 230 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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