This is an analysis of Money Makes The Mirth by Robert Herrick.

When all birds else do of their music fail,
Money's the still-sweet-singing nightingale!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa
  • Stanza lengths: 2,
  • Metre: 1111101101 1001110100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 2