1065. Another
If ye fear to be affrightedWhen ye are by chance benighted,In your pocket for a trustCarry nothing but a crust:For that holy piece of breadCharms the danger and the dread.
About this text
1065. Another is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2, Project Gutenberg ebook #22421; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Robert Herrick, 1065. Another, in Hesperides (1648), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #22421, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/herrick-hesperides/1065-another.html, id L05965.
Form and metre
1065. Another is 6 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets. The metre is trochaic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 89%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 7.3 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
See other poems in rhyming couplets, other poems in trochaic tetrameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 AABBCC affrightedA · benightedA · trustB · crustB · breadC · dreadC
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against trochaic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| If ye fear to be affrighted | 8 | ········ |
| When ye are by chance benighted, | 8 | ·····˘/˘ |
| In your pocket for a trust | 7 | ··/˘··· |
| Carry nothing but a crust: | 7 | /˘/˘··· |
| For that holy piece of bread | 7 | ··/˘··· |
| Charms the danger and the dread. | 7 | ··/˘··· |
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