This is an analysis of Farewell Love And All Thy Laws Forever by Sir Thomas Wyatt.

Farewell love and all thy laws forever;
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbacddcee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111111010 1101110111 1011011011 00111110010 0110110100 1101110111 1110101011 1111100010 1111110101 1011110100 0101111100 1011110101 11111111111 11011010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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