This is an analysis of To Mr. Henry Lawes, Who Had Then Newly Set A Song Of Mine by Edmund Waller.
Verse makes heroic virtue live;
But you can life to verses give.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddcc eeff ccddccgghhXiXi
- Stanza lengths: 12,4,14,
- Metre: 11010101 11110101 11010111 01111111 10010101 01011101 101111101 10110001 01110111 11000101 110100011 10111111 11010111 11111111 11011101 11010111 10110101 10011111 11000101 01010101 11011101 11010001 01010101 110100111 11110101 1101101 10010 111 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
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