This is an analysis of Jinny The Just by Matthew Prior.

Releas'd from the noise of the butcher and baker
Who, my old friends be thanked, did seldom forsake her,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaa Xbb Xcc ccc ddd eee aaa fff bgg eee aaX fff hhh ddd ddd hhh ddd ddd ddd iii jja ddd hhh ddd bbb ddd kkk ccc ddd bbg cck hhh aaa kkkXcccc
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,8,
  • Metre: 010010010110 111101010010 100110111010 010010110010 01111111110 110110011010 01111110100 0011010110110 111010110010 001001001001 01011001011 11100111111 10100011010110 010010111010 111110011110 111011011011 111011111101 101001010101 110011110010 0010010110010 011011010010 01011101001 001001001111 01111100101 1010010111010 1101100011010 1110010011110 11001111011 01101011001 0111011001 10111110101010 011011010010 111101010010 1011110010011 11111011001 11001001001 011001011011 1010111011101 1111001101 100111001011 111011101001 101011011101 01111111110 1101100100010 011111011110 11101111101 10101011111 11011111101 001101001101 110001011001 111001010101 00001011001 11001111000 10101101111 010110111001 11101011101 01001111101 11001101011 111011111101 11011011001 01101001101 11011001101 11101001000 11101001011 01011001001 101001101111 001011001001 101001101001 11111001101 110010111010 110010010010 1010111110110 110111100001 101001001011 001011011011 11011001101 11001011101 11111111101 11101001101 01001011001 11111101001 11101001111 11101101011 01011110101 1111010111010 1111111111110 110010010010 001001101001 110010101101 11101101011 0100101001 111110111011 0111100101 11111011011 101111010101 111101011001 111011110010 110111111010 110110111010 11111101001 11001011111 11001011011 111111111101 11011001011 11101001001 11101110001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 35
  • Lines: 106

Repeated words/phrases

and, from, to, she, for, her, at

Anaphora

from, her, at

Epiphora

her

Anadiplosis

her