This is an analysis of Mortification by George Herbert.
How soon doth man decay!
When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcabc decdec afcXfc egcegc hichXc iXciac
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 111101 1111000101 0110111 1101 11110101 1101110101 111101 110011001 110110011 1011 01011101 0101011111 110111 1111010111 11010111 010 11010001 1101110101 111111 1001111111 01010001 1001 11010101 1001010101 111111 1001110101 11111101 1111 01110101 1101100101 111001 110100100 11011111 1101 11011101 111110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
them, and, his
