This is an analysis of To His Lute by Sir Thomas Wyatt.
MY lute, awake! perform the last
Labour that thou and I shall waste,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aAbaB bbbbb ccXcb aabaB bbbbB ddbdb aababXaAbaB
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Metre: 11010101 11111111 11111110 11010111 11011111 10011101 11010101 11110111 11111111 11111111 0111110 010101000 11111100 11111100 100111111 10011111 01011011 11011101 11110101 10111111 10111101 110110101 11011001 10011101 10111111 11111011 01011111 10011001 11011101 11111111 11111001 01111111 11110111 11111011 11111111 11110001 11111111 11001110 10011111 11011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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