Where I Begunne!

1. Genre
This is a lyrical sonnet, presented in rhyming, parallel stanzas. It depicts the speaker's words or thoughts as directed to a close friend or lover, using metaphor and simile to convey a message of comfort amidst loss and parting. "Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th'other foot obliquely run;"
2. Speaker/Narrator
The speaker can be assumed to be John Donne, though the specific identity isn't as important as their relationship to the audience and their state of being, those being a very close friend or lover and close to death or other parting, respectively: "But we by a love, so much refin'd. That our selves know not what it is,"
3. Setting
The setting of this poem is not clear because it is not indicated in any way. It might possibly be presumed to be the speaker's deathbed, but might just as easily be at a writing desk in a ship's cabin many miles away from the audience.
4. Diction
This poem is notable for its prosaic metaphors, similes, and adjectives. Even though the metaphors, from "Moving of th'earth" to the continuing simile of two feet, are described with terms of grandness and scale, the diction of the poem as a whole feels wistful, almost sleepy. "So let us melt, and make no noise,"
5. Character
There are two characters involved in this poem, though not ever described: the speaker and the audience, both single people. Similes like "two feet" and words like "twin" strongly imply that the two characters are very close, a pair of some sort, likely lovers. The speaker, soon to be parted from the audience by death or something else, is urging or wishing for the audience not to mourn his loss. "Though I must goe, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion,"
6. Audience
As with the sonnet addressed to death, the speaker's message is delivered with support and examples, almost like an argument, so it strongly feels like an argument meant to convince the audience to his position. In this case, convincing the audience not to mourn his loss but to look forward to the next meeting, implying the audience currently feels otherwise, being depressed at the oncoming parting. "No teare-floods, nor sigh-tempests move,"
7. Tone
Through language like "melt" and "Dull sublunary" and abundant commas, inverted phrases and short lists, the poem feels restful and almost floats along, while numerous imperative phrases, both to the audience and in similes, reinforce the persuasive tone. "Care lesse, eyes, lips, and hands to misse."
8. Metaphor
The points of the speaker's "argument" are presented mostly through simile and metaphor, such as comparing the perceived greatness and actual impact of great events ("Moving of th'earth") with those of humanly worries and fears ("trepidation of the spheares"), and especially comparing the two characters to a pair of feet, where one foot leaves while the other stays planted, then moves to rejoin its companion.
9. Visual Design
As a sonnet, the poem is divided into nine stanzas of four lines each, rhyming loosely in an ABAB pattern by line. Each stanza generally consists of two contrasting or complementing ideas that together form a standalone point in the larger argument, and the ideas can be divided in several different ways within the stanza.
10. Plot
While the poem doesn't describe a sequence of events, it does continue from one theme to another: it starts by discussing opinions and fears shared by all of humanity related to death, then transitions to a description of the speaker's relationship with the audience and how the two ideas relate, ending on a sweet farewell. "Thy firmness drawes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begunne."