This is an analysis of To Phyllis by Edmund Waller.
Phyllis! why should we delay
Pleasures shorter than the day?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeffXXggffhh
- Stanza lengths: 22,
- Metre: 1011101 1010101 1111101 1110111 1010111 1110111 1111101 1111001 1110111 10101011 1110111 1011111 1000111 1010111 1111101 11011010 1110111 1111101 1000101 1110101 1011111 1010011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
we, and, love, what
Anaphora
love
