This is an analysis of Love's Alchemy by John Donne.

Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I,
Say, where his centric happiness doth lie;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddccdd aaeeafffffdd
  • Stanza lengths: 12,12,
  • Metre: 11110101111 1101010011 1111111 1111111101 1111110100 111001 1111011001 11010101 01010101 110000110100 1101011101 1101010101 1111110111 1110110111 1100111 10110011011 0101100111 110111 1101010101 11001101 11110111 0111110001 1111010111 10111011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

i, our, can