This is an analysis of To Penelope Brice by Richard Crawley.
Shall clamorous youth alone our lyres engage ?
Go, look at Brice and learn the charms of age !…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeffccccbb eeeegg
- Stanza lengths: 20,6,
- Metre: 110010111001 1111110101 1111010010 1111010101 1001010001 1111010101 1101000111 1101110101 1101010111 11011101001 11110101001 1001110101 1101010111 1111000101 1111010101 11110101001 11110101001 11010100101 1011010101 1101010101 1111010111 1101110101 1101010001 1101010111 1111110101 11001011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
thy, and
Anaphora
what, here, and
