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,…

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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