12. No Bashfulness in Begging
To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside;Who fears to ask doth teach to be deny'd.
Words in this poem
- bashfulness n.
- The quality of being bashful.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
12. No Bashfulness in Begging 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, 12. No Bashfulness in Begging, in Hesperides (1648), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #22421, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/herrick-hesperides/12-no-bashfulness-in-begging.html, id L05075.
Form and metre
12. No Bashfulness in Begging is 2 lines in a single stanza. The lines average 10.0 syllables.
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.
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. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; | 10 | ·····/˘˘˘/ |
| Who fears to ask doth teach to be deny'd. | 10 | ·········· |
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