This is an analysis of To His Unconstant Friend by Henry King.
But say thou very woman, why to me
This fit of weakness and inconstancie?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccaaaabbddcceeffbbaagghhiihhaaaaaXjjkkllmmnnXecXhhlllllleemdookkggaXbb
- Stanza lengths: 74,
- Metre: 1111010101 010101100 1101110111 1111110101 0111011111 0100111001 1101111111 1110110101 01101011101 0101011111 1111111111 1101011111 1011010101 1101010111 1011010111 0111110011 0111010101 11110010101 1101110111 1111110111 1111110111 1101111101 1011111111 1111010010 1001111111 1011011101 0111000111 1110010011 0111010101 10111010011 1111011001 1001010011 0101100101 1111000101 1111100101 111101101 1101011011 010111010 1111110111 1101010111 1110111101 1101111111 1101110111 1101011111 010111101 1111111111 1011011101 1111010101 0011011100 1101010101 111100010001 0101111101 1101011101 1111111111 1101011101 1111011101 010110110 1011010101 1101010111 1111110101 1101011101 1101101101 1111010101 1011111101 1111010011 0111111101 0111110101 1001010101 1011011111 0111110111 111101001011 0111010100 1111111111 1111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 74
Repeated words/phrases
i, thy, your, his, not
Anaphora
i
Anadiplosis
i
