This is an analysis of Sonnet 08 by Alan Seeger.
Oh, love of woman, you are known to be
A passion sent to plague the hearts of men;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcdedeXc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101011100 0101010101 11001110100 1001110001 1101110111 1111110111 1111011101 1101011111 1111010101 1111110001 10001000100 0111110101 1001000110 1101011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
to, i, and
Anaphora
and
