This is an analysis of My Lute, Awake by Sir Thomas Wyatt.

My labor that thou and I shall waste
And end that I have now begun,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaB bbbbb aabaB bbbbB ccbcb aXbabXaabaB
  • Stanza lengths: 4,5,5,5,5,11,
  • Metre: 110111111 11111110 11010111 11011111 10011101 11010101 11110111 11111111 11111111 10011111 0101111 11011101 11110101 11111111 10111101 110111101 11011001 10011101 11111111 01111011 01011111 10011001 11011101 11111111 11111001 01111111 01110111 11111011 11111111 11110001 10111111 11001110 10011111 11011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 34

Repeated words/phrases

and, i, as

Anaphora

as