This is an analysis of Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick.

Whenas inn silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,
  • Metre: 10111101 11101101 11010001 11111111 11010111 111100101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 6