This is an analysis of Sonnet 03 by Alan Seeger.
Why should you be astonished that my heart,
Plunged for so long in darkness and in dearth,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdccecce
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1110010111 1111010101 1001111111 1111010101 1101010101 11010011001 1111010111 0111010100 1111010101 1011010100 0101011101 1101010101 1101111001 0111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
and
