A Nymph’s Passion by Ben Jonson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Nymph’s Passion that begins with:

I love, and he loves me again,
Yet dare I not tell who;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaaa cdcdaXa ebebaaa ffffggg hbhbiii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 111111 10011111 111111 101011 01001011 1101010111 11101011 111101 11011101 100110 000111 11010010 0111111101 10011111 111101 1101111 111101 110101 11111011 1111110101 11111111 110111 11110101 111101 1110111 1110111 0011011111 11111111 111111 11010111 010111 110101 10100101 0111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, but are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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