This is an analysis of Sonnet 12 by John Milton.
XII. On the same.
I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X XXaXXXaXbaXbab
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,
- Metre: 1101 1011010111 101101010 11010010101 01011010111 1111100101 111001110 1101011101 1001110101 11110011001 1101111101 101111110 1111110110 1011111111 1101011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
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