This is an analysis of Christmas, His Masque (Extract) by Ben Jonson.
Why Gentlemen, doe you know what you doe? ha!
Would you ha'kept me out? Christmas, old Christmas?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaabaXXXXb
- Stanza lengths: 11,
- Metre: 110011111111 11101110110 1001011010 1111010111100110101 110011111 11001110011101010 1111111110 1110101 0011011111101 11111001011111111 111100101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 11
Repeated words/phrases
you, christmas
Epiphora
christmas
Anadiplosis
christmas
