This is an analysis of Delia Vi: Fair Is My Love, And Cruel As She's Fair by Samuel Daniel.

VI
Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XababXcXcdedeff
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 1 1011110111 01111101110 0111010101 10011101010 01011001010 1111110111 01001111010 1011010101 10011010101 110110101 1111001101 1111011101 1111011101 1111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

her, of

Anaphora

her