This is an analysis of Sonnet by Richard Lovelace.
I.
When I by thy faire shape did sweare,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXabXaacc XXXbbbbdd
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,
- Metre: 1 11111101 11001101 111111 111110 1101110111 1101001 1111001111 1101010011 1 11111101 111011111 111101 1101001 0111101101 100101 111110101 1100011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
i, then