This is an analysis of On His Deceased Wife by John Milton.
METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused Saint
Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacacaXa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 101111011 1011100001 11011001101 1001111111 1111010111 10000001101 1111111101 11000100101 1101011101 11110101101 1101000101 1110110101 11100111100 11011111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
in, her
