This is an analysis of Thisbe's Song by Abraham Cowley.

Come, love, why stay'st thou? The night
Will vanish ere wee taste delight.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1111101 01011101 01010101 11011101 11010111 111110100 11111111 1111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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