This is an analysis of On Don Surly by Ben Jonson.
Don Surly, to aspire the glorious name
Of a great man, and to be thought the same,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabcbbddcceeffddeegggg
- Stanza lengths: 22,
- Metre: 11000101001 0011100101 11001011111 110100100001 1111111101 1101111111 11100010001 1101110011 1011011001 1111111111 1101010111 1111010101 1011011011 1101111101 1101011001 0101011111 1011011111 1100111001 1111011001 1111001101 1011011101 1101111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
to, great, he