This is an analysis of An Epitaph On Doctor Donne, Dean Of St. Paul's by Richard Corbet.
He that would write an epitaph for thee,
And do it well, must first begin to be…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbggaa
- Stanza lengths: 18,
- Metre: 1111110111 1101110100 1111111101 1111111111 1111011011 0101010001 1111010101 1011001101 0100110101 1001010101 1111010101 1001111111 11110101001 1110010101 1111010101 1101010101 1111110111 11011100111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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