This is an analysis of To Doctor Empiric by Ben Jonson.
When men a dangerous disease did 'scape,
Of old, they gave a cock to Aesculape.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 1101000101 0111010100 1111110111 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
