This is an analysis of To A Lady With Child That Ask'D An Old Shirt. by Richard Lovelace.
And why an honour'd ragged shirt, that shows,
Like tatter'd ensigns, all its bodie's blows?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXbbccaa ccaaddee
- Stanza lengths: 10,8,
- Metre: 11110010111 1101010101 1001001110 00010101110 10001110011 1001001101 1111110100 0111010101 1101110011 11110011101 11010110100 1001101110 0011001101 1111111111 1101000111 11100011101 1111010111 1011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 18
