This is an analysis of A Prologue To The Scholars. A Comaedy Presented At The White Fryers by Richard Lovelace.
A gentleman, to give us somewhat new,
Hath brought up OXFORD with him to show you;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcXXdXe ccfXdXdd bbXbbbebffgggg
- Stanza lengths: 10,8,14,
- Metre: 0100011111 1111001011 1011010111 0101000101 0111010011 1101010111 111100110 011000101 1011110110 1001011101 1101111111 1110010111 1011010111 1111111110 1101010100 1001000100 0100110111 1101100111 11011010101 10111111011 11110001111 1001011001 10011101010 110111100110 1101111111 101100 1111 100111010 1101001011 1111010100 1101010011 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
but, then, in, he
Anaphora
the, then
Anadiplosis
then
