This is an analysis of By Now So Sick Of Waiting by Gaspara Stampa.

By now so sick of waiting, I'm by now
so beaten by the pain (by now the burn…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cddc ddX eXe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
  • Metre: 1111010011 1101011101 1111011101 1100011111 1111100111 1001011101 1101010101 1101110111 1101111101 1011110101 1101010101 1111111101 0101010100 1111011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

by, so, now, and