This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxxvii: O Why Doth Delia by Samuel Daniel.
O why doth Delia credit so her glass,
Gazing her beauty deign'd her by the skies,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeaeaXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010101 1001010101 1111011101 1111010101 0101010101 0100010101 1011110101 0111111101 1111111111 11011100011 0111111100 01011100101 111111110 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
her, of, your
Anaphora
the
