This is an analysis of X: And Must I Sing? by Ben Jonson.
And must I sing? what subject shall I chuse?
Or whose great name in Poets heaven use?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba ccc ddd eee fXf bbb XgX bbX ggg hhh
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 1111101111 1111010101 10110001101 1010101111 0011010101 0011101101 10111111001 1111111111 1101110111 1011011001 01110011001 0011001101 1011111111 1111101110 1001110111 1111110111 1011010111 11110001101 1011111011 1011001101 0100110111 1001011101 1111010100 1101110100 11010001001 1101001111 010110111 1111010111 1111011111 11110011011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
thy, of, his
Anaphora
my