This is an analysis of For The Restoration Of My Dear Husband From A Burning Ague, June, 1661. by Anne Bradstreet.

When feares and sorrowes me besett,
Then did'st thou rid me out;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcbddXdabcbaaca
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 1101100110 111111 11011101 110101 11111101 101101 10011101 011101 11010101 010011 11010010 111101 10010101 111111 11001101 111101 10011111 111101 11010101 110111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

me, him, and

Anaphora

thou