This is an analysis of His Supposed Mistress by Ben Jonson.

If I freely can discover
What would please me in my lover,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbcccdd eecXcaaaff
  • Stanza lengths: 10,10,
  • Metre: 01101010 11110110 11101110 100101110 010111010 111000010 110111010 11100010 10110111 1011111 11001010 11011110 01101110 01101110 100101110 10101110 110101110 10101110 1101000111 100100011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

her

Anaphora

sometimes

Epiphora

her, me