This is an analysis of To Mr. I. P. by John Donne.

BLEST are your north parts, for all this long time
My sun is with you ; cold and dark's our clime ;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddbbaaeeffdd
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 1111111011 1100111111 10111110101 1011111111 1101110101 1101110100 1111110111 1011110111 0111101101 1101001101 11110011001 1100111111 1111111101 0111110101 1111111111 0111111111 1111110101 1111111111 1111111001 1110111011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

no, so, thy, and, may, ne'er