Analysis of To laurels
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
A funeral stone
Or verse, I covet none;
But only crave
Of you that I may have
A sacred laurel springing from my grave:
Which being seen
Blest with perpetual green,
May grow to be
Not so much call'd a tree,
As the eternal monument of me.
| Scheme | ABCDCEEFFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 01001 111101 1101 111111 0101010111 1101 1101001 1111 111101 1001010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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