This is an analysis of To A Lady by Matthew Prior.
Spare, gen'rous victor, spare the slave,
Who did unequal war pursue;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede fcfc bcbc dcXc ececXcbcb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11010101 10010101 11110111 01010111 000110011 11111101 10111111 11110111 11010101 11011101 11010101 11111001 11111101 11010101 11110001 11110111 01110001 11000101 01010101 110101010 111000101 10011101 110101001 11010001 10011101 11010101 01010101 11011101 110100101 10001101 01010101 11111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
my, to, her, she, he
Anaphora
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