719. Upon Julia's Sweat
Would ye oil of blossoms get?Take it from my Julia's sweat:Oil of lilies and of spike?From her moisture take the like.Let her breathe, or let her blow,All rich spices thence will flow.
About this text
719. Upon Julia's Sweat 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, 719. Upon Julia's Sweat, in Hesperides (1648), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #22421, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/herrick-hesperides/719-upon-julia-s-sweat.html, id L05664.
Form and metre
719. Upon Julia's Sweat 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 91%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 7.0 syllables.
See other poems in rhyming couplets, other poems in trochaic tetrameter.
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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 AABBCC getA · sweatA · spikeB · likeB · blowC · flowC
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Would ye oil of blossoms get? | 7 | ····/˘· |
| Take it from my Julia's sweat: | 7 | ····/˘· |
| Oil of lilies and of spike? | 7 | ··/˘··· |
| From her moisture take the like. | 7 | ··/˘··· |
| Let her breathe, or let her blow, | 7 | ······· |
| All rich spices thence will flow. | 7 | ··/˘··· |
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