This is an analysis of Sonnet I: Loving In Truth by Sir Philip Sidney.
Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
That she (dear She) might take some pleasure of my pain:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab abab cdc dXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
- Metre: 100111011101 111111110011 101101101101 101101110101 111101010101 1000101010101 110101010111 1111010011111 111101101001 010101111101 110111110011 110101110011 101101101111 10011101100111100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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