This is an analysis of My Midnight Meditation by Henry King.
Ill busi'd man! why should'st thou take such care
To lengthen out thy life's short calendar?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaabb ccXbcX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,
- Metre: 1101111111 0101111100 1101001101 101111010 11010111011 1111110111 1100111111 0101001101 1011110100 100101111 1111011101 1101111100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
