This is an analysis of Sonnet Xvi: Happy In Sleep by Samuel Daniel.
Happy in sleep, waking content to languish,
Embracing clouds by night; in daytime, mourn;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdeeeXcc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10011010010 0101110111 11111011110 1011010101 11111111110 101010101110 111111011 1111111000 11010011010 01110001010 11110101010 101111000110 11111111110 11110111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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