Analysis of His content in the country
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
HERE, Here I live with what my board
Can with the smallest cost afford;
Though ne'er so mean the viands be,
They well content my Prue and me:
Or pea or bean, or wort or beet,
Whatever comes, Content makes sweet.
Here we rejoice, because no rent
We pay for our poor tenement;
Wherein we rest, and never fear
The landlord or the usurer.
The quarter-day does ne'er affright
Our peaceful slumbers in the night:
We eat our own, and batten more,
Because we feed on no man's score;
But pity those whose flanks grow great,
Swell'd with the lard of other's meat.
We bless our fortunes, when we see
Our own beloved privacy;
And like our living, where we're known
To very few, or else to none.
Scheme | AABBCCDEFFAGHHICBBJK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111111 11010101 1111011 11101101 11111111 1011011 11010111 111101100 01110101 01101 0101111 10101001 111010101 01111111 11011111 11011101 111010111 10101100 011010111 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 525 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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