Annotations
Stanza 1: The poet substitutes different metrical feet in place of iambs in the iambic tetrameter of the poem. Iambs consist of one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable, like the words intent or engrosse. First, Come, my Lucadia, since we see uses a trochee, a stressed then unstressed syllable for the words Come, my. Then again, in the line to the dull, angry world let's prove, the first foot is a pirrus or two unstressed syllables and the second foot is two stressed syllables, or a spondee.
This poem also follows an ABABC rhyme scheme, where the rhymes of B and C are either eye-rhymes (like prove and love) or slant rhymes (like choice and Joys). The rhyme, paired with the sing-song tempo of iambic tetrameter, establishes a very contained and predictable structure with the exception of the slightly altered B / C rhyme in the last two lines of each stanza.