This is an analysis of Sonnet Lvi: When Like An Eaglet by Michael Drayton.
When like an eaglet I first found my Love,
For that the virtue I thereof would know,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXeceff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111011111 1101011111 0101110101 0000110111 1011011101 1101010101 0111110101 1101011101 11010101010 0101000101 1111010101 0111110101 1011101101 0101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, it
Anaphora
but, and
