This is an analysis of Meditations Upon An Egg by John Bunyan.

1.
The egg's no chick by falling from the hen;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbaaaaccXdee X ffaaffaa X aaddXXddgghh
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,8,1,12,
  • Metre: 1 0111110001 1101011101 011101001 1101011101 01111101010 11111101110 01110101010 110011101010 0111011111 0101111111 0111011100 0111011111 1111010111 0101011101 1 1101011101 1001010101 0101110101 0111010101 1101110101 1101001101 01011110010 10010110010 1 1111000111 1111000101 1111111110 1111010111 1111011101 110010101010 1111111101 1111010110 1101101101 1111110111 1001110001 1101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 37

Repeated words/phrases

doth, rotten, some, and, as

Anaphora

the