This is an analysis of The Kiss: A Dialogue by Robert Herrick.
1 Among thy fancies, tell me this,
What is the thing we call a kiss?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aab cccc bbbb dddd aaab bXbb
- Stanza lengths: 3,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101110110 10011101 111011100 00010111 01011101 11110101 111110101 100110111 10010001 11010101 111011111 110010101 01111111 11111111 1111111001 1100101011 1110111110 11111111 110110100 1100101111 01011000 11010101 111011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 23
Repeated words/phrases
and, now
Anaphora
1
