This is an analysis of Song On May Morning by John Milton.

Now the bright morning-star, Day’s harbinger,
Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXacccc
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1011011100 1100011100 01001100111 0101010111 11011101 11111010 11110110 11111110 1101101101 11011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

the