Analysis of Life
George Herbert 1593 (Montgomery) – 1633 (Bemerton)
I made a posie, while the day ran by:
Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie
My life within this band.
But time did becken to the flowers, and they
By noon most cunningly did steal away
And wither'd in my hand.
My hand was next to them, and then my heart:
I took, without more thinking, in good part
Times gentle admonition:
Who did so sweetly deaths sad taste convey
Making my minde to smell my fatall day;
Yet sugring the suspicion.
Farewell deare flowers, sweetly your time ye spent,
Fit, while ye liv'd, for smell or ornament,
And after death for cures.
I follow straight without complaints or grief,
Since if my sent be good, I care not, if
It be as short as yours.
Scheme | AABCCB DDECCE XXFXXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110111 1111110101 110111 1111101001 11111101 010011 1111110111 1101110011 110010 1111011101 101111111 110010 1110101111 1111111100 010111 1101010111 1111111111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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