This is an analysis of Cast Away Care by Thomas Dekker.

Cast away care; he that loves sorrow
Lengthens not a day, nor can buy to-morrow ;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ccddE ffbbE
  • Stanza lengths: 6,5,5,
  • Metre: 101111110 10101111010 1001111010 11110010010 10010010011 1011011111 100101011 10001001001 1001110110 10010011100 1001 110111110 10001110110 100111111 11010111111 1001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

merrily, it

Epiphora

it, too, not