This is an analysis of To Bacchus: A Canticle by Robert Herrick.

Whither dost thou hurry me,
Bacchus, being full of thee?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbbbcc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1011101 1010101 0111110 1110110 1111011 1010100 1111101 1010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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