This is an analysis of Lord! When Those Glorious Lights I See by George Wither.
Lord! when those glorious lights I see
With which thou hast adorned the skies,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efeffgfg Xggghihi ijijjdjd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 111100111 01110101 0101110 11110111 10001101 11110101 11001101 11000101 01011101 01110101 01001101 10110111 11011101 11011101 10011001 011011001 111101000 11111111 11011101 11111101 01111101 010101101 10111101 01010101 11111100 11011101 11100111 11110101 11111101 11110101 10110101 1101001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
him, let, us
Anaphora
let
