This is an analysis of The Token by John Donne.

Send me some token, that my hope may live,
Or that my easeless thoughts may sleep and rest;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgbgb hh
  • Stanza lengths: 16,2,
  • Metre: 1111011111 11110011111 1111001111 1011011101 1111010111 0111000101 0111110101 01010111111 1111100100 1101011101 1101000100 0111110011 111101110 11010011101 1101111100 0101011101 11101100111 1111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

my, that, may, in, most

Anaphora

of