This is an analysis of The Good-Night Or Blessing by Robert Herrick.

Blessings in abundance come
To the bride and to her groom ;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaadd
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1000101 0011001 1011011 1010001 10101011 11101111 1110111 1011101 1010101 1110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

and

Epiphora

ye