This is an analysis of Sonnet Xlvi: Fair And Lovely Maid by Samuel Daniel.

Fair and lovely maid, look from the shore,
See thy Leander striving in these waves,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdbdbaa
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 111011001 1101010011 11100111111 1111111101 1110101101 0101100101 11110111101 0111110101 1101010101 11111111010 1101111111 11111111010 1101001111 1101111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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