This is an analysis of A Fever by John Donne.
Oh do not die, for I shall hate
All women so, when thou art gone,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd Xbab eaXa XfXf gagX gXge
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111111 11011111 11111101 11010111 11111111 01010101 11100111 01110011 10110111 01111101 01010111 101101001 1100111110 11011101 10010001 10010100 11110110 11101001 11010100 01010101 110111000 11001011 110111111 1100100 11011101 100110100 11110100 0111011110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
i, world, but, this, thee