This is an analysis of Sonnet Xviii by Edmund Spenser.
THe rolling wheele that runneth often round,
The hardest steele in tract of time doth teare:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcXccdcdXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101110101 0101010111 1101110101 01011001001 11010100101 1110010011 1101101101 11010111001 1111111111 1111110101110 11111101101 111111011010 1111111101 1111111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, she, when, and
Anaphora
the, and
