This is an analysis of Not Marble Nor The Guilded Monuments (Sonnet 55) by William Shakespeare.
Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddbdbee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010100 01011101001 1111110110 11011000101 1101111101 1111010100 11011111011 0100101100 11110100100 1111111111 10001010100 1101100101 1101011001 1100110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14