This is an analysis of Love’s Fitfulness by Alfred Austin.
You say that I am fitful. Sweet, 'tis true;
But 'tis that I your fitfulness obey.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110111 1111110001 0111011101 1111011111 1101111001 1101110111 1111011101 1111110111 0111110101 1111111101 1001111101 0111011111 1111110101 0111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
you, i, and
