This is an analysis of Song. Mediocrity In Love Rejected. by Thomas Carew.

GIVE me more love or more disdain ;
The torrid or the frozen zone…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabb cdcdbbaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,8,
  • Metre: 11111101 01010101 11011011 01000111 10010111 01010101 11010001 110011010 11010001 011100010 11011101 010110101 11111111 11111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14