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.…
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