Elegy I: Jealousy by John Donne: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Elegy I: Jealousy that begins with:

Fond woman, which wouldst have thy husband die,
And yet complain'st of his great jealousy;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccddeeffaaXbggbbhhiiiiffjjiiffcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101111101 1110001100 01010110011 010001110 1001111111 010010010 1001010001 0110110001 1100110101 1001111100 11111101100 1011011101 1111111100 1001111100 1111011100 1001010101 1111111100 0101000100 1101010101 0111110101 1111110011 1111100101 1111011101 1111001101 1111010110 0101010100 10110011101 1111010111 00010101101 11001011111 1101010100 0101110001 10010001011 11010110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1451
  • Average number of words per stanza: 257
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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