This is an analysis of Sonnet Xi: Tears, Vows, And Prayers by Samuel Daniel.
Tears, vows, and prayers win the hardest heart:
Tears, vows, and prayers have I spent in vain;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeeeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 111110101 111111101 1101011110 101100101 1111111111 11111101010 1101010001 11011100010 1111010001 1111010111 111100111 1101010101 1011110101 1101111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
tears, prayers, vows, i, my, faith, though
Anaphora
tears, i, though
