This is an analysis of The Bubble: A Song by Robert Herrick.

To my revenge, and to her desperate fears,
Fly, thou made bubble of my sighs and tears!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbdd
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 01011001001 1111001111 0011111101 1101010101 1111010111 1001010001 111101011 1101001100 11011101101 1110010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

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