This is an analysis of Sonnet Xlii: When Winter Snows by Samuel Daniel.
When Winter snows upon thy golden hairs,
And frost of age hath nipt thy flowers near,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcXccdedecc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101011101 1101111101 1111111101 1111011111 11010111011 10001011010 11011111011 11111111011 0101110100 11000100110 1100110111 11011111110 0101111111 1001111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
thy, thee, here, may
Anaphora
here, these
Epiphora
thee
