Analysis of What Kind Of Mistress He Would Have
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Be the mistress of my choice,
Clean in manners, clear in voice;
Be she witty, more than wise,
Pure enough, though not precise;
Be she showing in her dress,
Like a civil wilderness,
That the curious may detect
Order in a sweet neglect;
Be she rolling in her eye,
Tempting all the passers by;
And each ringlet of her hair,
An enchantment, or a snare,
For to catch the lookers on;
But herself held fast by none.
Let her Lucrece all day be,
Thais in the night, to me.
Be she such, as neither will
Famish me, nor overfill.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1010101 1110111 1011101 1110001 1010100 10100101 1000101 1110001 1010101 011101 1010101 1110101 1011111 101111 100111 1111101 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 396 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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