This is an analysis of The Hour-Glass by Robert Herrick.
That hour-glass which there you see
With water fill'd, sirs, credit me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXccddbb
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 11011111 01011101 01011111 11011000 11111111 011000101 10010101 1100100100 11010111 11011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10