Analysis of Nothing free-cost
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Nothing comes free-cost here; Jove will not let
His gifts go from him, if not bought with sweat.
Scheme | AA |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1011111111 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 103 |
Words | 20 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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