Analysis of A conjuration: to electra

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



By those soft tods of wool,
With which the air is full;
By all those tinctures there
That paint the hemisphere;
By dews and drizzling rain,
That swell the golden grain;
By all those sweets that be
I'th' flowery nunnery;
By silent nights, and the
Three forms of Hecate;
By all aspects that bless
The sober sorceress,
While juice she strains, and pith
To make her philtres with;
By Time, that hastens on
Things to perfection;
And by your self, the best
Conjurement of the rest;
--O, my Electra!  be
In love with none but me.


Scheme AABCDDEEFGHHIJKLGGEE
Poetic Form Etheree  (35%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 111111 110111 111101 11010 1101001 110101 111111 111100100 110100 1111 11111 0101 111101 11011 111101 11010 011101 1101 110101 011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 511
Words 98
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 404
Words per stanza (avg) 97
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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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