This is an analysis of Sonnet Vii: How Soon Hath Time, The Subtle Thief Of Youth by John Milton.
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stoln on his wing my three and twentieth year!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbXcdedce
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010101 11011111001 1101111101 11101111101 0111010101 1101110111 11010011101 11110101010 1001111111 01010101010 0111110111 011111100010 1001110101 1100111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
my, or
