This is an analysis of The Annunciation And Passion by John Donne.
TAMELY, frail body, abstain to-day ; to-day
My soul eats twice, Christ hither and away.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbaaccddaXeeeeXfeeggbbhXaahhiieefaddeeccbbXa
- Stanza lengths: 46,
- Metre: 100110010101 1111110101 1111111100 1001010100 1111010101 0111111101 1111011111 1101010111 0101010101 0111110111 1111010101 10011101100 1101111111 1111011101 1101010011 1011001001 11001010100 1101010100 1011010111 10100110111 1011010101 0110111100001 1101110100 1001110101 1101111101 01111011100 1111001111 0101111101 11101100111 1110110101 01010100101 1101110111 0111011111 1101001101 1101010100 1110011100 1101011111 0011011100 0101011101 1001111101 1111111101 0101111111 1101001111 11001110101 0101011110 10111101001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
and, at, her, his, he
Anaphora
she, at
