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,…

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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