This is an analysis of You Bid Me Try by Henry Austin Dobson.
You bid me try, blue-eyes, to write
A Rondeau. What! - forthwith? - tonight?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa XabXaaab
- Stanza lengths: 3,8,
- Metre: 11111101 00111101 0111111111111101110111101 11111110 11011111 110110111111 11010101 11011111 110101011101111101001101 1111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 10