This is an analysis of The Three Gentle Shepherds by Alexander Pope.
Of gentle Philips will I ever sing,
With gentle Philips shall the valleys ring.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXcbcc
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 0101001101 0101010101 11011100110 01010101010 10010001111 01010101010 11110101011 10011101000 111011011101 10111101111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
gentle, with, of
Epiphora
ye
