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?…

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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