This is an analysis of Sonnet 14 by Henry Timrod.

Are these wild thoughts, thus fettered in my rhymes,
Indeed the product of my heart and brain?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddceefXXf
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111110011 0101001111 1111110101 1111000111 1011010101 1111011101 01110011101 0101110111 1001010111 1111111101 1110010111 01110111011 1111010001 110101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

my, in