This is an analysis of Sonnet Vi: Is It To Love by Mary Darby Robinson.
Is it to love, to fix the tender gaze,
To hide the timid blush, and steal away;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcbcbc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0001010101 0101011101 0101011101 0111010101 0001110101 0111110111 0101110101 0101010101 00011010101 0101111101 0101000101 1101001101 0001011101 1111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
to, in
Anaphora
to
