This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxiii: Time, Cruel Time by Samuel Daniel.
Time, cruel Time, come and subdue that brow
Which conquers all but thee, and thee, too, stays…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbbXcbcdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101110111 1101111111 1010010111 0110100001 1111010111 1111100111 1111010100 10100111111 11111101100 1111111101 11000101001 1011100101 1101100100 1101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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