This is an analysis of Upon A Looking Glass by John Bunyan.

In this see thou thy beauty, hast thou any,
Or thy defects, should they be few or many.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc X ddeebbdd
  • Stanza lengths: 6,1,8,
  • Metre: 00111101110 11011101110 1111111101 1111111100 1111101101 1111011111 0100 1001110101 1101010101 1101010111 0110000101 1011011111 1011011110 0001011101 1101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

thou, thy, to