This is an analysis of Sonnet V. by Christopher Pearse Cranch.

ALL loves have frailer roots than loves that start
From one ancestral blood. The friends we find…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111011111 0101010111 0111011101 1111010101 1100111111 1111010101 1011011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101011111 1101010100 1111110101 1101111111 1001010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and, one, of

Anaphora

nor