This is an analysis of The Heart Breaking by Abraham Cowley.
It gave a piteous groan, and so it broke;
In vain it something would have spoke:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcc ddcc ddee ffdd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101011101 01010111 010111111 1101000101 1110110011 11010101 11010101 0111110101 1101110101 10110111 110010101 1010110101 10111010111 100100101 11111101 1110110001 1101101101 11011101 11110101 1111000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
it, in
Anaphora
how
