This is an analysis of To Lucasta, Like The Sentinel Stars by Richard Lovelace.
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Like to the sent'nel stars, I watch all night;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbb X ccaaa X ddaXa
- Stanza lengths: 1,5,1,5,1,5,
- Metre: 1 1001011111 11011011 11001 010111 1011011101 1 1111011101 11010111 10011 111111 1101010011 1 1111011101 010010111 1110 11100 1011011111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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