This is an analysis of Sonnet Xv: If That A Loyal Heart by Samuel Daniel.
If that a loyal heart and faith unfeign'd,
If a sweet languish with a chaste desire,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xababcbcdedeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 01010111100 00110001010 0101011101 11011101010 10010110010 10110101110 00110111010 11011101110 0111110001 1111110101 0101111101 1110011101 100101111 0100110110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
if, with, my, her, and
Anaphora
if