This is an analysis of A Fly About A Glasse Of Burnt Claret. by Richard Lovelace.
I.
Forbear this liquid fire, Fly,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabb Xccdd XeXeX Xffdd aeebb affXg Xeehh Xffff Xiijj hkkhX aaadd XXgbh Xlldd XXXee
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 1 10010101 00110101 11010101 10111111 1 01010101 11110101 11010101 00110001 1 10010101 110110100 10110101 11010100 1 01110011 11010101 101010001 10010101 1 10110101 01010101 1011100010 010111010 1 10110101 11111111 1101001 01010101 1 01010011 11100101 010100111 11010101 1 01010111 11110101 11010001 11001001 1 10111111 0101101 11010101 110111101 1 11010101 11110011 11011101 1011010 1 1111101001 0111011 10111101 0001001 1 11111000 01110101 10111111 11010101 1 11110101 10110101 100110011 01011111 1 1111110 011111010 11110101 11011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 70
Repeated words/phrases
and, it, her
