This is an analysis of To My Worthy Friend Mr. Peter Lilly: On That Excellent Pict by Richard Lovelace.
See! what a clouded majesty, and eyes
Whose glory through their mist doth brighter rise!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccXX aaddXX ddee XXffddggXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 10,6,4,12,
- Metre: 1101010011 1101111101 1111010011 1101010111 1001011101 1001010010 1100011101 0011010101 11001110101 1101110101 1011001101 1101010011 11010101011 10111011111 1101010111 111101010010 11110011010 11011011010 1111110111 0111110101 1101101101 0111101101 1100111101 1100011101 1101010011 1011011111 1101100001 1101010101 1101100101 1001010111 1110111111 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
