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.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Scheme | XAXA BCBC XDXD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 350 |
Words | 63 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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