This is an analysis of A Sonnet Upon A Stolen Kiss by George Wither.
Now gentle sleep hath clos'd up those eyes
Which waking kept my boldest thoughts in awe,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcdedeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 110111111 1101110101 1111101111 0111010101 1011000111 0111010111 1101110101 1110011111 1111010101 1101011111 1111010001 11111100101 1011110111 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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