This is an analysis of A Lover To His Mistress by Frances Anne Kemble.
Oh make not light of love, my lady dear,
For, from that sweetest source doth ever flow…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbabbccXddXdX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111011101 1011011101 11010101101 10101100101 0111110001 1101011011 11011100100 1101110001 11101111000 0101001101 1011010011 1001010100 1111000101 0101101100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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