This is an analysis of Sonnet 05 by Alan Seeger.

Seeing you have not come with me, nor spent
This day's suggestive beauty as we ought,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbXccXddX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011110111 0101010111 1111011010 0111010011 1111011111 0111000001 0101011111 010111100 1011010101 1010111111 1011100101 0101110101 1110010101 10010011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

my