This is an analysis of Brittle Beauty by Henry Howard.
Brittle beauty that nature made so frail,
Whereof the gift is small, and short the season,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaaaaXXXXabXbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 17,
- Metre: 1010110111 10010111010 10001011101 10 100101010 10001010101 10010111110 1 10 01010111100 100100110101 1101011010 10001111110 11010101010 110111001010 011010111010 10
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 17