This is an analysis of Song From Amphitryon by John Dryden.

Air Iris I love, and hourly I die,
But not for a lip, nor a languishing eye:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabbaacc
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 1101111011 11101101001 1101111101 11111111011 1100111011 11001011001 1100111101 11101011011 1011111001 11101011001 0100111011 11001111001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

and, i, as, neither, we, of