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,…
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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