This is an analysis of Sonnet To A Friend by Charles Lamb.

Friend of my earliest years and childish days,
My joys, my sorrows, thou with me hast shared,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXXXXbcXbc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 10110001101 1111010111 0101110111 1101110101 0001011101 0111110111 11010111001 0101111100 11001111010 0101111101 10010101001 1101011101 1111001101 1111001001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

my, as, and

Anaphora

and