This is an analysis of The White Island:Or Place Of The Blest by Robert Herrick.
In this world, the Isle of Dreams,
While we sit by sorrow's streams,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaab ccXb dddb eeeX fffb gggb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0010101 1111101 1110111 010 1110111 1110101 1010100 010 0110101 1110101 1011101 010 1110101 1011101 0011111 100 1011101 1111101 1010111 010 1011101 1010011 1111101 110
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
