This is an analysis of The Country Life: by Robert Herrick.
TO THE HONOURED MR ENDYMION PORTER, GROOM OF
THE BED-CHAMBER TO HIS MAJESTY…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aX bbccddaXeeffgghheebbiihhddiihhjjXbeegggffkkkk hXeelleekkkkhXeeiieellbb llhhXeX
- Stanza lengths: 2,45,24,7,
- Metre: 00100101001010 011000100 11010101 11110111 11011100 11010101 11010101 01111101 10010111 0101011 10010111 11010001 11100101 11110101 11011111 11110101 11011111 11010101 111111101 01111110 11010101 11010101 10111111 11111111 10110101 00110111 11011111 00110100 11011101 01010001 0110110001 11111111 110011110 010011110 11010111 11010001 11101111 10011101 11110101 01011111 01010111 11110111 01100111 11110111 01111101 11011111 01010101 11110011 11111100 11011111 01011101 10010101 01001101 11110111 11110101 11011101 11011101 11011101 111101111 11001111 11110100 11111101 11111110 01111101 1101111001 11010111 01000101 11110111 01010101 11111111 010100111 11010110 01001101 11010111 11001111 110111110 11111101 10010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 78
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, thy
Anaphora
thou, thy, and
