This is an analysis of The Short Wooing by Henry King.
Like an Oblation set before a Shrine,
Fair One! I offer up this heart of mine.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeddffaacXgghhXXiigg
- Stanza lengths: 28,
- Metre: 1110010101 1111010101 1001011111 1101110111 1111010101 1011010100 1001001111 1111011101 1011110001 1101110001 1111010111 100010100111 1111110011 0010010100 1101010111 01011011101 111101010 111101010 0100111111 1101111100 1111111011 1101100111 0101101101 1111010101 01111101010 11000101010 1111001101 0101000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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