252. God's Time Must End Our Trouble
God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.
About this text
252. God's Time Must End Our Trouble 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, 252. God's Time Must End Our Trouble, in Hesperides (1648), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #22421, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/herrick-hesperides/252-god-s-time-must-end-our-trouble.html, id L06263.
Form and metre
252. God's Time Must End Our Trouble is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 50% of the lines. The lines average 10.0 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
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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 --AA he · misery · fitA · itA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| God doth not promise here to man that He | 10 | ···/˘····· |
| Will free him quickly from his misery; | 10 | ···/˘··/˘˘ |
| But in His own time, and when He thinks fit, | 10 | ·········· |
| Then He will give a happy end to it. | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
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