This is an analysis of Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward by John Donne.

Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this,
The intelligence that moves, devotion is…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXXccddddddeecdccXXbbbXbbXXccaacfccggcfaa
  • Stanza lengths: 42,
  • Metre: 1110011100 00100110100 11010101101 0101010111 110110101001 10011100101 10110011101 1111011110 11111100101 01111110101 1111011101 1111010101 1111010111 1101000101 1110011111 1100011111 1111101111 1010010111 0101010101 0101011011 1101111101 111101110011 1101110110 10011101000 1001111110 0101110100 1101111111 1110010111 0111111111 010100010111 1111011101 10110111001 1111110011 10011101100 111010111011 1101110101 1111011001 0101110111 1111110101 1111110100 0111011111 1111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 42

Repeated words/phrases

it, of, my

Anaphora

it

Epiphora

dye