This is an analysis of Simplex Munditiis by Ben Jonson.
Still to be neat, still to be dressed,
As you were going to a feast;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccddaa
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,
- Metre: 10011001 11010001 10010101 10000001 11110111 10111011 11011101 11010001 11010111 11011101 110100001 11111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
to, still, be, not
