This is an analysis of The Thief by Abraham Cowley.
Thou robb'st my days of business and delights,
Of sleep thou robb'st my nights ;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdcaabbbbbeeffgggccddaXa
- Stanza lengths: 28,
- Metre: 1111010101 011111 11011111 1110101 100111101 11010100 0101110101 0001011011 11110101 1001110011 110101101 11101111 11111101 10111111101 0111110001 11110101 100111111 11110101 11101111 11110001 10110100101 1111011111 01010101 11011100 11110100 11010100 00110110 1001110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
thou, of, to, i