This is an analysis of My Mistress Commanding Me To Return Her Letters. by Thomas Carew.
SO grieves th' adventurous merchant, when he throws
All the long toil'd-for treasure his ship stows…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccaaccddeeffgghhhhXXiiggddhhjjggccjjffccjjaaddkkjjaaXgccddjjeeffeeddddccccaa
- Stanza lengths: 80,
- Metre: 111010010111 1011110011 0001010101 0111111011 11011100011 1011111101 1111011111 1111011101 1001011111 0111111111 1010111101 1011010100 1101110111 110101101101 110111110 11111100101 1101011101 110101010000 1100111101 1001111101 1011011101 1100011001 11011100101 11010101000 11010010001 1101111101 1011111101 1001011101 1101111111 0101011111 0101100101 0101111001 1011011111 1101011101 0101101100 1111111101 0101110111 0111010100 11010100101 1101011101 1011011001 0111011101 1000011101 1101010111 1101011101 1101000101 1001010101 1101111111 1111011101 1101010011 1111110101 1101111111 1101010101 1101111101 0011010011 1101010101 11111101000 1101010101 1101011001 1101111101 1011011101 1111011101 11011101001 1111110101 1111111111 1011110101 0101011101 0101011001 1101010101 1010100111 1111101101 0111011100 1101010011 0101111101 0001010111 1100011101 1101010101 11010101111 0101111101 1011101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 80
Repeated words/phrases
you, it, no, her, love, in, my
Anaphora
no
