Analysis of To robin red-breast
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Laid out for dead, let thy last kindness be
With leaves and moss-work for to cover me;
And while the wood-nymphs my cold corpse inter,
Sing thou my dirge, sweet-warbling chorister!
For epitaph, in foliage, next write this:
HERE, HERE THE TOMB OF ROBIN HERRICK IS!
| Scheme | AABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111101 1101111101 0101111101 111111001 110010111 1101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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