This is an analysis of Elegy Vi by John Donne.
Oh, let me not serve so, as those men serve
Whom honour's smokes at once fatten and starve;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddddeedfbbddgghheeiijjbbjXddkkjjddccfdkk
- Stanza lengths: 46,
- Metre: 1111111111 1101111011 1010011111 1111101101 11010010011 1101010110 1111011111 1100110111 0111111111 10001010111000 1111001101 11111001101 0011010101 1111111100 110101010101 011111101 1101010101 1000100100101 1101110100 110001101000 11010110001 10100100100 1001010101 0101010111 1101110101 1111110101 1001010101 01001011100 11010001101 0001010111 1111010101 01001010010 1101011101 1111011011 1111110001 1001011101 1101111101 1111111101 10111101111 1011110011 1111111111 1101010111 1111111100 10011100111 10100011011 11010010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
her, and, i
