This is an analysis of From 'The Motto' by George Wither.
And first, that no man else may censure me
For vaunting what belongeth not to me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabccddeeffXdffddggchiijjkkhXccXhbaXXaahXaaccaahhXhab ggcXiillXlXXdXjXccXmmmddggddXXffddgg XfeennoXddjXffhhaadXjjXfaaggjjiicciiddXfaaffjjXfccoXXXddggii
- Stanza lengths: 54,36,60,
- Metre: 1111111101 1101100101 1111111101 0101001100 1110100111 0011001011 1111010101 1111110001 1111010111 1101011111 1111010011 1111010111 1101011111 1111011101 1111010100 1001111101 11110010110 0111110101 11110001001 0110010011 1111000110 1111111100 1111010101 1111111101 0101111101 0101100111 1101110001 1101000111 11110100110 1100110011 11111001101 111011101 1111001100 110110101 11110001100 1001010100 1111110010 111101111 1111010101 01111101001 1111101111 11111100100 1100110111 1111011101 1111001101 1111110001 1101111001 1101010101 11111010010 01110011010 11110111010 111110011100 1101110111 110110100 1111001111 1111010101 111101101 0111010100 10010101010 11010001010 1001111101 01000010011 1101001110 111001011 000101100 1101110010 11010101101 1101001111 1101011101 1111011101 1011010111 0111010111 1101010110 1101011101 1101011101 1001011001 1111010101 11010101101 0101110101 1111010101 1110011101 1101010101 110101010 101001110 1001110111 1100010001 1111010111 0111010101 1111111101 1111100011 1101111110 0101010101 1011111101 000111111 1111010101 1111010011 11010011010 10110010111 101111111 0111110100 1111010101 1110000111 1101011111 111111101 1111011101 011011111 1111001111 1100110101 1101010101 11010111001 1001110111 11010010101 1101110100 01110110010 11110010110 1110010101 10101111101 1110001111 1101010111 0101110110 111111101 0111111111 1011011101 1101010101 1111010101 1111011101 0100101101 11110100101 0101010110 1101111001 0101011111 1101010101 0101010111 0101010111 0101001000 11110010101 1001110110 1111010101 1101111111 0101010100 1111110100 1011110111 1111010111 0101010110 1101010101 01011100100 1111110101 1111111111 1111010111 1100110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 152
Repeated words/phrases
not, to, i, or, have, of, that, no, and, be, he
Anaphora
or, no
Epiphora
me
