This is an analysis of A Pastoral. by Nicholas Breton.
Sweet birds! that sit and sing among the shady valleys,
And see how sweetly Phyllis walks amid her garden alleys,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddcaXX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,
- Metre: 1111110101010 111101010101010 11010101111110 000101011001010 110111110101 11011101110101 110101110101 11010101110101 110111011100 11010101011100 1111111101100 111111100111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
her, and, his, that, never, you, on, all
Epiphora
voice

