This is an analysis of The Shepherds by Henry Vaughan.
Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure
Waits innocence and pleasure),…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXbeeeebbeeffccggeehhiiXdjjbbddiikkiillkkccddll
- Stanza lengths: 54,
- Metre: 1101111010 1100110 11001101101 0101111 1100100101 110111 1101110111 011101 100111111 010111 1101010111 111101 1111111011 111101 1111110001 011101 1101010111 111101 0101011111 11011 1101010101 11011 01011011101 010111 111101001 110011 0101011111 110101 1111011111 000101 1101111100 011111 1101111111 110101 1010111101 110111 0111011011 001101 1101111101 1011101 1111110101 110101 1111100101 101101 0111110111 011101 1111111101 110101 1111111101 110111 0111101111 111101 1001011101 111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
they, to, that
