This is an analysis of If A Daughter You Have by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,
No peace shall you know, tho' you've buried your wife,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabBccB ddbBXcB
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,
- Metre: 001011101011 11111111011 110111010110 11010110010 10110 10110 11010110010 110111110011 010110110111 111010110110 11010110010 100110 10110 11010110010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
you
Epiphora
us
