This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxxii by Edmund Spenser.

The paynefull smith with force of feruent heat,
the hardest yron soone doth mollify:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabbXbaaXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01001010101 0101011101 100111101 1100110101 1101110111 0111110110 1110111011 1111000101 1101110111 0111000101 11010010101 0101100010 11100110101 1101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

she

Anaphora

the