This is an analysis of Sonnet by Alice Duer Miller.

DEAR, if you love me, hold me most your friend,
Chosen from out the many who would bear…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011111111 1001010111 1101010011 1111011101 1101110001 1011011001 1111000111 0111011111 1101111111 1111010111 0111110101 1101011111 011011101 1111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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