This is an analysis of Upon The Detracter by Robert Herrick.
I ask'd thee oft what poets thou hast read,
And lik'st the best? Still thou repli'st, The dead.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 1111110111 1101111001 1111011100 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
Repeated words/phrases
thou
