This is an analysis of I Abide And Abide And Better Abide by Sir Thomas Wyatt.
I abide and abide and better abide,
And after the old proverb, the happy day;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXabXacXXcdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10110111001 11001100101 1101100111 1101110100 10110111001 100101111 111011110 100101101 1101010 10011110 001000101 10010000101 100101001 101100111101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, abide, i
Anaphora
and
