This is an analysis of At Penshurst by Edmund Waller.
Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made
Choice of their deities, this sacred shade…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeaaaaffaa ggddhhiibbXe
- Stanza lengths: 20,12,
- Metre: 1100011101 1011000101 11110001011 0111011101 0101010111 1001010001 0101111101 1011010101 1101110101 1101010011 0101001001 1111010101 01110110101 1101000101 1011010111 11110101001 101111101 0011000011 10010000101 01011010001 1101010101 1001011111 0111010101 0101110011 1111010101 0101110101 0101011101 1111010101 1111010101 0100110101 01011111110 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 32
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