This is an analysis of Spring's Welcome by John Lyly.
WHAT bird so sings, yet so does wail?
O 'tis the ravish'd nightingale.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeEE
- Stanza lengths: 13,
- Metre: 11111111 110100100 11111011 11011111 11111111 11011111 111011101 01110111 11010101 11010101 11010101 110100001 110100001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
jug, hark
Anaphora
cuckoo
Epiphora
spring
