This is an analysis of Amoretti XXX: My Love Is Like To Ice, And I To Fire by Edmund Spenser.
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcbccdcdcc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11010111010 1101100111 01011111010 1101011010 1110110101 0101101101 1111110101 1111010101 1101001101 11011111101 1110010101 11010110001 10010010101 1011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
