This is an analysis of To His Sleeping Mistress by John Fletcher.

Oh, fair sweet face! oh, eyes, celestial bright,
Twin stars in heaven, that now adorn the night!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXd
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 1111110101 11010110101 1101110101 1101111101 1101010101 1011011011 11110111001 1111011011 1101111101 1101110101 1101010101 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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