This is an analysis of On My First Daughter by Ben Jonson.
Here lies, to each her parents' ruth,
Mary, the daughter of their youth;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaa
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 11010101 10010011 1110110101 01010101 11111101 01000100 111011111 01000101 11010101 11110101 011000101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
