This is an analysis of A Love Song by Virna Sheard.

Oh haste, my Sweet! Impatient now I wait,
The crescent moon swings low, it groweth late,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,
  • Metre: 1111010111 0101110101 0111011111 1111110101 1111011001 1101110101 11111101111 1101110111 1111111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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