This is an analysis of Sonnet Xlviii: My Cynthia by Samuel Daniel.
My Cynthia hath the waters of mine eyes
The ready handmaids on her grace attending…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeXbb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11001010011 01010101010 1101011101 10111101110 1010001110 01010010111 11010001110 1100011100 1101011111 11110111010 1111010001 11110101110 11011100110 11110100010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
