This is an analysis of Sonnet Xi by Alan Seeger.
When among creatures fair of countenance
Love comes enformed in such proud character,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadeXded
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1011010100 11100011100 1111010100 1101010101 11011101101 1101000111 1111011111 01100110100 1111011101 1101001101 1011111000 1001001101 1101010101 01110111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
so
