This is an analysis of Love's Diet by John Donne.
To what a cumbersome unwieldiness
And burdenous corpulence my love had grown,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbb ccccdd ececcc cdcdXX dXdaff
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 0101000100 11001001111 11100101 1100010 1001010101 111101010 01110110111 0111011111 10011111 01101101 11010111111 1101011101 011010111001 0111110101 01101111 11011111 0111011101 11110111111 1101101111 1101011101 10110111 11110100 0110111001 00010010110 1101110101 1111111111 11000111 111101001 10101011111 1011111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
he, and, i
