A Dialogue Betwixt Himself And Mistress Elizawheeler, Under The Name Of Amarillis by Robert Herrick: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Dialogue Betwixt Himself And Mistress Elizawheeler, Under The Name Of Amarillis that begins with:

My dearest Love, since thou wilt go,
And leave me here behind thee;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab acaX bcbc dede dfdfXbebe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 1111011 11110111 0111111 100010111001 1101010 11010101 1111000 011010101 1011010 11111110 0101110 11010101 0101110 11010101 1101010 10011110101 0100110 001010111 11111110 1111001101 1111110 1011110101 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.

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