This is an analysis of Affliction by George Herbert.
When thou didst entice to thee my heart,
I thought the service brave:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff gXghcc Xeceii djdjgg kekegg ldldkk jmjmhh eceXnn eieiaaXlalaaa
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 111010111 110101 1101111111 011111 1011010001 0100110100 111110011 110101 11001110101 111101 1111011111 1111000101 1101111111 111100 1100011101 111111 1111011101 11011100111 1111111100 111111 11010011100 111111 1010100111 1101010111 1101101101 100111 0101010101 111101 1011111101 1101110111 1111110111 111111 1111110101 101111 1111010111 1111010111 0111110101 011101 11011001001 111001 1101000101 01110100111 1111010101 110111 1101010101 110111 1111011111 1111011001 1101111100 010100 1011011101 001100 111101101110 11101101110 1111111101 101101 1111111001 111111 0111111111 0110111101 1111011101 010101 1101010111 110101 1111111101 1111101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 66
Repeated words/phrases
i, me, and, my
Anaphora
i
