This is an analysis of Sonnet Xlvi by Edmund Spenser.

WHen my abodes prefixed time is spent,
My cruell fayre streight bids me wend my way:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXbbbbcbcXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11100100101 111111111 11011100111 1101010001 1111111010 0111100111 1110101111 1101100111 1111110101 1111010111 1011111111 0101011101 0100111010 0111011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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