This is an analysis of Death Be Not Proud by John Donne.
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXaabbXcddcXa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 101111111 1011011111 1111111101 1111111111 0111111101 1101011111 1101110111 101111100 111011111001 1101011101 11110111111 1101111111 1111110100 1110111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
thou, not, and
Anaphora
and
