This is an analysis of Rose by Thomas Dekker.

Here sit thou down upon this flow’ry bank,
And make a garland for thy Lacy’s head.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXbXcXXacXXdd
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1101011101 1111011100 11010001101 01010000101 1011110011 10110001101 1110110111 11011110100 0111111011 110111010 1111010111 1111010101 11010011110 1111110111 1101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

these, my, i, for

Anaphora

these, for