Analysis of His return to london
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
From the dull confines of the drooping west,
To see the day spring from the pregnant east,
Ravish'd in spirit, I come, nay more, I fly
To thee, blest place of my nativity!
Thus, thus with hallow'd foot I touch the ground,
With thousand blessings by thy fortune crown'd.
O fruitful Genius! that bestowest here
An everlasting plenty year by year;
O place! O people! manners! framed to please
All nations, customs, kindreds, languages!
I am a free-born Roman; suffer then
That I amongst you live a citizen.
London my home is; though by hard fate sent
Into a long and irksome banishment;
Yet since call'd back, henceforward let me be,
O native country, repossess'd by thee!
For, rather than I'll to the west return,
I'll beg of thee first here to have mine urn.
Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall;
Give thou my sacred reliques burial.
Scheme | ABCDEEFGHIJKLMDDNNOP |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101110101 1101110101 1010111111 1111110100 1111011101 1101011101 11010111 101010111 1111010111 110101100 1101110101 1101110100 1011111111 0101010100 11111111 110100111 1101110101 1111111111 1111010111 111101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 833 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 649 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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