This is an analysis of To The Right Hon. My Lady Anne Lovelace by Richard Lovelace.

To the richest Treasury
That e'er fill'd ambitious eye;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXXccbbXXaaddddeeXX
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 0010100 11010101 0011100 1100011 011100110 1110100 0010001 1011011 0010101 1110111 1111001 1010001 11010100 01011101 111111 11010101 1001011 11111111 10101011 1010100 1011011 1110101 11011110 0010110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24