This is an analysis of Sonnet: July 18th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles.
O Time! who know'st a lenient hand to lay
Softest on sorrow's wound, and slowly thence…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcXeeXdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11110100101 1011011101 1001010101 01110100001 1111110111 1111110101 11011011111 11111100101 111101000100 11111101010 10011001010 010101110100 1111111101 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
