This is an analysis of They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek by David McKee Wright.

They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcc dedeefX gfgfXhh
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
  • Metre: 1101111011 0101100110 111010111 1111111010 1111101010 0111111111 100100001001 1010010101 1011011010 0101100101 1011001001 1111001111 100010011 1101111111 011111110 1101101100 0001100010 1111010010 1110011000 111111011 111111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

her, in

Anaphora

that, and