This is an analysis of Of My Lady Isabella Playing On The Lute by Edmund Waller.

Such moving sounds from such a careless touch,
So unconcerned herself, and we so much!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccbbcc
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101011111 1100101101 01111100101 01001010101 11111100101 1111010101 1111111101 1111111101 10010101001 1011011001 1111010101 1011010101 11010010001 1101010101 0101110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

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