This is an analysis of The Retreat by Henry Vaughan.
1 Happy those early days, when I
2 Shin'd in my angel-infancy!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccddeeccXXabffcccX gghhiiaaeehh
- Stanza lengths: 20,12,
- Metre: 110110111 110110100 101110101 101011101 111110101 11010101 111111101 101110111 111011111 111010011 111110111 1110111110 110110101 111100100 101111101 111000101 111011001 101010101 111110101 111010000 111110101 111011101 111111111 1111111001 1011010101 111010011 111110111 101110001 111010101 111110111 111011001 10111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
that, i