This is an analysis of Song - Stay, Phoebus, Stay! by Edmund Waller.

Stay, Phoebus, stay!
The world to which you fly so fast,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 1101 01011111 0101 01001111 0111010111 0111010101 1101 01001011 1111 01010101 1111110101 0101011001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Anaphora

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