This is an analysis of Holy Sonnet Ix: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree by John Donne.
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaaccXdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 01001001011 1111110101 01001010100 1001011110 1101110101 1111001110 11010101100 0100111101 1111110101 1110110101 11110100101 1100111100 1101001111 1101001101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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