This is an analysis of Love Me A Little by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

Love me a little, love me as thou wilt,
Whether a draught it be of passionate wine…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbabaab cddcdced eddedeed afXafaaf
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 1101011111 10010001001 101101 11010101 110111 110111 010001 1001 1101010011 0011010101 1011010 01011101 111111 110101 111100 1011 1101010001 0101010011 100111 01010101 111101 110101 110111 1111 1101011111 11010110110 010100 11010101 0101001 111111 011101 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 32

Anaphora

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