This is an analysis of Soft Music by Robert Herrick.

The mellow touch of music most doth wound
The soul, when it doth rather sigh, than sound.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa
  • Stanza lengths: 2,
  • Metre: 0101010111 0110110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 2

Anaphora

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