This is an analysis of Silvia by William Shakespeare.

WHO is Silvia? What is she?
   That all our swains commend her?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababa cdcdc eeeee
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
  • Metre: 10100101 1111010 1011101 11011010 1110100 0111101 1101010 1100101 1110010 11010101 10100111 11000010 1011101 1001110 0011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

she