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;…

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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