This is an analysis of Song by Robert Browning.

I.
Nay but you, who do not love her,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X ababcc X dadaee
  • Stanza lengths: 1,6,1,6,
  • Metre: 1 11111110 01111110 11111010 11011101 10110101 11111101 1 011111010 011101110 111101010 011111010 01011011 11011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

this, tress