Analysis of How pansies or hearts-ease came first
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Frolic virgins once these were,
Overloving, living here;
Being here their ends denied
Ran for sweet-hearts mad, and died.
Love, in pity of their tears,
And their loss in blooming years,
For their restless here-spent hours,
Gave them hearts-ease turn'd to flowers.
| Scheme | ABCCDEFF |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010110 1101 1011101 1111101 1010111 0110101 11101110 11111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 264 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 208 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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