This is an analysis of A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne.
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls, to go,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd cece dede fcfX gege bbbb ehehXegeg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1100111001 11001101 11011111 11111111 11111111 11111101 11010011 01010011 100111111 11010011 11010001 11010100 11000101 11011001 10010101 11110000 111011101 10111100 0101001 11111101 11111111 11110111 0111010 11010101 01011111 11110011 11011111 011101101 11000101 11010111 01110100 11011111 11100111 111010101 11011101 11111110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
two, and, it
