Analysis of The old wives' Prayer
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Holy-Rood, come forth and shield
Us i' th' city and the field;
Safely guard us, now and aye,
From the blast that burns by day;
And those sounds that us affright
In the dead of dampish night;
Drive all hurtful fiends us fro,
By the time the cocks first crow.
| Scheme | AABCADEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 111110001 1011101 1011111 011111 001111 1110111 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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