Analysis of On a perfumed lady
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
You say you're sweet: how should we know
Whether that you be sweet or no?
--From powders and perfumes keep free;
Then we shall smell how sweet you be!
Scheme | AABB |
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Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain Tanaga |
Metre | 11111111 10111111 11000111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 156 |
Words | 31 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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