This is an analysis of Upon The Barren Fig-Tree In God's Vineyard by John Bunyan.
What, barren here! in this so good a soil?
The sight of this doth make God's heart recoil…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabBccbBddbBeebbccbBaabB
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 1101001001 0100111101 0101010101 111111010 1111010101 1111110101 0100110101 111111010 11010011101 0101011101 0101000111 111111010 1101111101 1011011101 0110011101 111111010 0111010011 1101110111 1101110101 111111010 1101110111 110111111 0101101111 111111010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
