This is an analysis of Song: Let No Shepherd Sing To Me by Henry James Pye.

Let no Shepherd sing to me
The stupid praise of Constancy,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbaaccddeeffbbffeX
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 1110101 01010100 1010011 110101 101001001 1010111 10100101 10101001 1010101 1010111 1010111 01010101 111111 1110111 1110101 1010101 1110101 1010001 1001101 10010100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Anaphora

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