This is an analysis of To His Conscience by Robert Herrick.
Can I not sin, but thou wilt be
My private protonotary?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbaXccddeeffaa
- Stanza lengths: 18,
- Metre: 11111110 11010000 11111011 01110100 11011101 1100010 11011111 1101100 11011111 11110100 11110101 01111101 100111001 10111111 00101111 11011101 01010011 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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