This is an analysis of Epilogue To Henry Ii. by John Dryden.
Thus you the sad catastrophe have seen,
Occasioned by a mistress and a queen.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddeeddbbffgghhiijjkkiiicclll
- Stanza lengths: 34,
- Metre: 1101010011 0101010101 1100011111 1101010101 1101011110 1100110101 1111011111 0101010101 01101111101 0101010101 11010001001 1101010111 1111000101 1101010001 11110101010 11010101010 0100111101 1101110101 10011101101 1111010101 1001011111 1001011111 0110010101 110101010101 11011111110 11010101110 10011101111 1101110001 0111001101 1111011111 1111011111 1101111101 1111011101 1101011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
you, of, i
Anadiplosis
queen
