This is an analysis of To The Rose: Song by Robert Herrick.

Go, happy Rose, and interwove
With other flowers, bind my Love.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaa bbccc ddaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
  • Metre: 11011100 01010111 1011110 1010101 1111101 10110111 01110101 1001101 1110110 1011101 11110111 11001111 1010101 1010001 11111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 15