This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxi by Edmund Spenser.

WAs it the worke of nature or of Art?
which tempred so the feature of her face:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbccdXdXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1001010101 1101010001 1111011101 1110100101 1011011101 1001110101 0110010111 110101111001 01110011101 1011111101 1001010110 01110011101 11111110010 11011101010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of, doth, with, her