Analysis of To the rose: song
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Go, happy Rose, and interwove
With other flowers, bind my Love.
Tell her, too, she must not be
Longer flowing, longer free,
That so oft has fetter'd me.
Say, if she's fretful, I have bands
Of pearl and gold, to bind her hands;
Tell her, if she struggle still,
I have myrtle rods at will,
For to tame, though not to kill.
Take thou my blessing thus, and go
And tell her this,--but do not so!--
Lest a handsome anger fly
Like a lightning from her eye,
And burn thee up, as well as I!
Scheme | AABBB CCDDD EEFFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 11010111 1011111 1010101 1111101 11110111 11011101 1011101 1110111 1111111 11110101 01011111 1010101 1010101 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 475 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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