This is an analysis of The Alchemist: Prologue by Ben Jonson.
Fortune, that favours fools, these two short hours,
We wish away, both for your sakes and ours,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccddffgghhccXc
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 10110111110 1101111111 10100101001 00101000111 1101001111 1101010111 1111010111 1101010101 1101110101 1111001101 1101010101 0101011101 10001110101 0101110111 1101010011 1011011101 11011101101 10011100001 1111111101 0101010111 1001011011 11111011101 11110010111 110010111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
no, they