This is an analysis of Venus' Runaway by Ben Jonson.
Beauties, have ye seen this toy,
Called Love, a little boy,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbac ddXXdd eeddff bbggaa hhggii jjXXdd kkbbff gggg ii ffiill mmmmac
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,4,2,6,6,
- Metre: 1011101 110101 1110101 1011111 0100111 1010101 11011010 1011110 1010101 1110111 11110010 11111010 11101110 11110110 10100010 10101010 11011100 1011101 1010111 1000101 1110101 1010101 0010001 101011 1111111 1010101 1010111 1110101 10101010 10101010 1110101 1010101 1010110 111011 10111110 01111010 10101010 10110010 1011101 1011101 11101110 11111010 1110111 1000111 1010001 10010001 1011101 1110001 1010101 1010101 1010101 1111101 10010001 01110101 01111011 10011111 11100011 11111011 1110101 11110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
his
Anaphora
but, he
Epiphora
him
