This is an analysis of How Springs Came First by Robert Herrick.
These springs were maidens once that loved,
But lost to that they most approved:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbcc
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 101010111 11011101 11011110 101011111 010100111 10011111 11101101 01011011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
they
