This is an analysis of To His Dying Brother, Master William Herrick by Robert Herrick.
Life of my life, take not so soon thy flight,
But stay the time till we have bade good-night.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaaggffbb
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 1011111111 1101111101 1111110111 1101010111 1111110111 1111111111 1101010101 1111011111 1111110111 0101110101 1111111011 10110101010 1111111111 1101100111 0011011111 0111111111 1111110101 0101011101 0101110110 1001110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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