Analysis of Christmas, His Masque (extract)
Ben Jonson 1572 (Westminster) – 1637 (Westminster)
Why Gentlemen, doe you know what you doe? ha!
Would you ha'kept me out? Christmas, old Christmas?
Christmas of London, and Captaine Christmas?
Pray you let me be brought before my Lord Chamberlaine, i'le not be answer'd else:
'Tis merrie in hall when beards wag all:
I ha'seene the time you ha'wish'd for me, for a merry Christmas,
And now you ha'me; they would not let me in:
I must come another time!
A good jest, as if I could come more than once a year;
Why, I am no dangerous person, and so I told my friends, o'the Guard.
I am old Gregorie Christmas still
| Scheme | ABBCDBEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001111111 11111110110 101100110 111111011111011101 110011111 110111111101010 01111111110 1110101 0111111111101 111110010011111101 111100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 567 |
| Words | 108 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 425 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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