This is an analysis of The Changes: To Corinna by Robert Herrick.

Be not proud, but now incline
Your soft ear to discipline;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeeffgggg
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 0111101 1110100 1110011 0111011 1110111 1111111 1111111 1001111 1110111 1110101 1111101 1011101 1110111 110011 1010011 0110101 1111 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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