This is an analysis of Xv: To Heaven by Ben Jonson.
Good, and great God, can I not think of thee,
But it must, straight, my melancholy bee?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeaaffXXggddhhaa
- Stanza lengths: 26,
- Metre: 0111111101 1011110101 0001000101 11001101111 1011010111 1101010111 1111001101 0111111101 1111101101 1111010111 1111111001 1111011100 1110011101 1101111101 11111101001 1111011101 1111110111 0101110111 1001110101 1101010101 11110111101 0111100101 1111101111 0101100101 000111111 1100011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
my, and
Anaphora
and, my
