72. Upon His Sister-In-Law, Mistress Elizabeth Herrick
First, for effusions due unto the dead,My solemn vows have here accomplished:Next, how I love thee, that my grief must tell,Wherein thou liv'st for ever. Dear, farewell.
About this text
72. Upon His Sister-In-Law, Mistress Elizabeth Herrick 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, 72. Upon His Sister-In-Law, Mistress Elizabeth Herrick, in Hesperides (1648), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #22421, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/herrick-hesperides/72-upon-his-sister-in-law-mistress-elizabeth-herrick.html, id L05133.
Form and metre
72. Upon His Sister-In-Law, Mistress Elizabeth Herrick 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 dead · accomplished · tellA · farewellA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| First, for effusions due unto the dead, | 10 | ·········· |
| My solemn vows have here accomplished: | 10 | ·/˘···˘/˘˘ |
| Next, how I love thee, that my grief must tell, | 10 | ·········· |
| Wherein thou liv'st for ever. Dear, farewell. | 10 | ·····/˘··/ |
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