This is an analysis of On A Bank As I Sate A Fishing: A Description Of The Spring by Sir Henry Wotton.

And now all Nature seem'd in love,
The lusty sap began to move;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccXdXXeeffggddbbXX
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 11110101 01010101 11011001 11111101 01011101 11011001 11110101 010001001 01000110 0011011 01010010 0100101 010010101 01010101 110110111 11010111 11110111 11010011 01110001 01010100 11110101 01110101 11111101 010011001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24

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