This is an analysis of Of Love: A Sonnet by Robert Herrick.

How Love came in, I do not know,
Whether by th'eye, or ear, or no;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 11101111 10111111 11000101 1101001 10011111 110111001 01011111 11010011 11011101 01110001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

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