This is an analysis of A Quarrel With Love by Nicholas Breton.

Oh that I could write a story
Of love's dealing with affection!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef egeg ahah fgfg eieiXeeee
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11111010 01100010 11101010 10100010 11111011 0010011 10111011 1001101 10101110 00101010 11101010 110101010 10111010 10101110 10111010 10101010 10101110 11101010 11101110 10111010 1000010 10111010 10101010 00101010 11101010 00100010 11101010 10101110 00111010 00111010 00101110 10101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

it, in, she, her

Anaphora

in

Epiphora

it