This is an analysis of Sonnet 78: Oh How The Pleasant Airs by Sir Philip Sidney.

Oh how the pleasnat airs of true love be
Infect'd by those vapors, which arise…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaab baab cca dda
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
  • Metre: 1101010110 0101110101 0111011101 0101010100 0101011100 1011011001 1011001101 1101010100 1111110101 1101111101 1101111111 1101110111 1101110011 001101101011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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