This is an analysis of The New Cry by Ben Jonson.

Ere cherries ripe, and strawberries be gone;
Unto the cries of London I'll add one;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddddXeXXffccbbeeccbbddbbgghhaadd
  • Stanza lengths: 40,
  • Metre: 1101111001 1001010111 1101110101 1111011101 1111110101 1111111111 11111101110 110101001010 1111011101 1101011101 0101010011 11111101001 1101110100 1101011111 1100110100 10100110100 1101111101 1111011011 1011010111 1101010101 1101011101 1101010111 1101111101 1111110101 1111010101 01010101001 0101001101 0101010101 0111110111 001111001 0101100111 1001011011 1100111111 1101111101 1101010101 1111010001 0100111111 1011111101 1011011011 1111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

ripe, their, and, to, they

Anaphora

and, or, to