This is an analysis of The Canonization by John Donne.
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
Or chide my palsy, or my gout,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacccaa addaeeeaa affabbbaa accagggaa ahhagggaX
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,9,9,
- Metre: 1111111111 11110111 1111110101 0111110101 11011101 01010101 10111011 10111001 110111 0101110111 11011111 1111110101 10110100101 10011111 11100101 1011110111 01011101 111111 11110111111 10110101 11101111111 11011110101 01010111 111110110 1011011101 11110111 0100101 1111001111 10011111 1100000111 1011010011 11010101 11011101 0101011101 11111101 110111 110111011001 11010100 1011111101 1001111111 00010011 11110111 1101010101 10111001 01001100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 45
Repeated words/phrases
or, your, my, his, you, we, and, by
Anaphora
when, call
Epiphora
love