This is an analysis of On The University Carrier Who Sickn'D In The Time Of His Vacancy, Being Forbid To Go To London, By Reason Of The Plague by John Milton.
Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt,
And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeXbaaXd
- Stanza lengths: 18,
- Metre: 1111011101 1101111001 11011011001 1110011101 1101010101 1111111111 1111010111 1010110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011111 1101010111 1111110101 0011000100 10101111111 1101110101 0101110101 10111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
here, his
Anaphora
and
