No fault in women
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
No fault in women, to refuse
The offer which they most would chuse.
--No fault: in women, to confess
How tedious they are in their dress;
--No fault in women, to lay on
The tincture of vermilion;
And there to give the cheek a dye
Of white, where Nature doth deny.
--No fault in women, to make show
Of largeness, when they're nothing so;
When, true it is, the outside swells
With inward buckram, little else.
--No fault in women, though they be
But seldom from suspicion free;
--No fault in womankind at all,
If they but slip, and never fall.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABBCDEEFFGHIIJJ |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 103 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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