This is an analysis of On A Perfumed Lady by Robert Herrick.

You say you're sweet: how should we know
Whether that you be sweet or no?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11111111 10110111 01010111 11111110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

you, sweet