This is an analysis of Sonnet Iv: These Plaintive Verses by Samuel Daniel.

These plaintive verses, the Posts of my desire,
Which haste for succour to her slow regard:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXcdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 110100101010 1111000101 11010101010 10010101001 11110101101 11110110110 1001110111 101111110110 1111011101 1111000101 1101010101 0011010100 1111100111 1101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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