Analysis of The apron of flowers
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
To gather flowers, Sappha went,
And homeward she did bring
Within her lawny continent,
The treasure of the Spring.
She smiling blush'd, and blushing smiled,
And sweetly blushing thus,
She look'd as she'd been got with child
By young Favonius.
Her apron gave, as she did pass,
An odour more divine,
More pleasing too, than ever was
The lap of Proserpine.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101011 010111 0101100 010101 11010101 010101 11111111 111 01011111 11101 11011101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 350 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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