This is an analysis of Upon Shark by Robert Herrick.
Shark, when he goes to any publick feast,
Eates to ones thinking, of all there, the least.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 6,
- Metre: 1111010101 10011001101 1101000111 1001011110 0011010101 11010110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 6