This is an analysis of Idea Liii: To The River Ancor by Michael Drayton.
Clear Ancor, on whose silver-sanded shore
My soul-shrin'd saint, my fair Idea lies,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdbdbdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101110101 11101110101 111111101 110101101 11110100001 10010101010 11000010111 01010110010 1111111111 1111010100 1011111110 1101110101 1101110101 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
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