This is an analysis of A Retir'D Friendship by Katherine Philips.
Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre,
Where kindly mingling Souls a while,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc XdXd XeXe XfXf XXXg bcbc gfXfXfdfd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110100001 110100101 11000111 111100101 10110011 11010011 110010111 11010001 11011100 11010101 01110101 11111101 111111110 10110101 110101010 01010111 11110101 11110101 01010110 11010101 11011101 11010110 11011111 01010100 11110101 01010111 11100101 01111111 01010110 01011101 01110001 11011101 11010101 01010101 01011101 01110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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