This is an analysis of To A Very Young Lady by Edmund Waller.
Why came I so untimely forth
Into a world which, wanting thee,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXcc dedeff gbgbhh
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 11110101 00011101 11011011 11100100 11111101 01111101 11010111 11111111 01010101 11010001 11110111 11010111 110101001 11010011 10111101 01000101 10011111 111101001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
that
Anaphora
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