538. To Dianeme
Give me one kissAnd no more:If so be thisMakes you poor,To enrich you,I'll restoreFor that one twoThousand score.
About this text
538. To Dianeme 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, 538. To Dianeme, in Hesperides (1648), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #22421, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/herrick-hesperides/538-to-dianeme.html, id L05510.
Form and metre
538. To Dianeme is 8 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic dimeter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 88%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 3.5 syllables. 50% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in iambic dimeter.
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 ABA-CBCB kissA · moreB · thisA · poor · youC · restoreB · twoC · scoreB
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 iambic dimeter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Give me one kiss | 4 | ···· |
| And no more: | 3 | ··· |
| If so be this | 4 | ···· |
| Makes you poor, | 3 | ··· |
| To enrich you, | 4 | ·˘/· |
| I'll restore | 3 | ·˘/ |
| For that one two | 4 | ···· |
| Thousand score. | 3 | /˘· |
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