This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxviii: Reign In My Thoughts by Samuel Daniel.
Reign in my thoughts, fair hand, sweet eye, rare voice:
Possess me whole, my heart's triumvirate;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacdedebcbcff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1011111111 0111110100 1101011101 01111101010 1111110101 1111100101 1101110111 1111110101 1111111101 1101011011 1111010101 1011010101 1111111111 1111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
all, i
Anaphora
and
Anadiplosis
all
