This is an analysis of Ring Out Your Bells by Sir Philip Sidney.
Ring out your bells, let mourning shows be spread;
For Love is dead--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aAababCXDD aaceceCXDD aAXXXXCXDD aaXaXacXdD
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,10,
- Metre: 1111110101 1101 1101010 010101 1111010 111111 0101010 0101110 001111 010101 1101111101 1101 0111010 010101 0011010 011001 0101010 0101110 001111 010101 1101110101 1101 1101100 110101 1101100 10101010 0101010 0101110 001111 010101 0111110101 1011 1011110 00011 1101010 111011 1101110 0111010 111101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
his, from
Anaphora
from, his, love