This is an analysis of A Pastoral Sung To The King by Robert Herrick.
MONTANO, SILVIO, AND MIRTILLO, SHEPHERDS
MON. Bad are the times. SIL. And worse than they are we.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddccbXXeeXXfggXeefXfbbcchhiiaXaggahccbbbddajcccj
- Stanza lengths: 1,52,
- Metre: 110100110010 111011111111 11111111101 01010111101 0101110101 1111010101 1010011111 1011111011101 11100011111 1111111101 0111110100 11000111110 111 1100011111 10111111101 01 1111111101 0101101101 0101011111 111110111 10111101111 1111010100 1001011101 1101110101 101110 10101011101 1111011101 1111110101 1011110111 0111111101 0101011100 110111001110 111111101010 1110111111 0111101111 11 11011011101 0111010101 11111010011 11011110101 1101111001 1011111101 10010100101 1111101111 1100111101 11 1100111101 101111101 110 1111 1101 1101 010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, this, never, i, my
Anaphora
mon, this, and
