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 |
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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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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