This is an analysis of The Alchemist by Ben Jonson.
The sickness hot, a master quit, for fear,
His house in town, and left one servant there;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aab bccddXXee
- Stanza lengths: 3,9,
- Metre: 0101010111 0101111101 1101011101 0101011111 1011010001 10011110101 1011011111 1101110101 1100111101 0101010101 1001110001 1011110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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