This is an analysis of To A Person Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me by Matthew Prior.
Lie Philo untouch'd, on my peaceable shelf,
Nor take it amiss that so little I heed thee;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 11001111001 110011110111 111001111011 111110111111 101001011011 001001001001 001001011101 001001011101 011011011011 10110101010 11011001111 11001001111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
i, thee, what, there, from
Anaphora
to, there
