Analysis of Impossibilities: to his friend
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
My faithful friend, if you can see
The fruit to grow up, or the tree;
If you can see the colour come
Into the blushing pear or plum;
If you can see the water grow
To cakes of ice, or flakes of snow;
If you can see that drop of rain
Lost in the wild sea once again;
If you can see how dreams do creep
Into the brain by easy sleep:--
--Then there is hope that you may see
Her love me once, who now hates me.
Scheme | AABBCCDEFFAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 01111101 1111011 01010111 11110101 11111111 11111111 10011101 11111111 01011101 11111111 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 304 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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