This is an analysis of Gypsy Songs by Ben Jonson.

I
THE faery beam upon you,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccbbbaab X ddeedffccf
  • Stanza lengths: 1,10,1,10,
  • Metre: 1 0101011 0101011 0101 00101 1010111001 0101011 01001011 11001 10101 101001011 1 00111110 00111110 00111 00101 101001110 00101110 00101110 00101 00101 001001110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

you, to

Anaphora

the, to

Epiphora

you