This is an analysis of The Honest Shepherd by Matthew Prior.
When hungry wolves had trespass'd on the fold,
And the robb'd shepherd his sad story told,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccdd
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 11011100101 1011001101 1010010101 1111110101 1101000101 1100110101 0101110001 10011001101 1101111101 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
