This is an analysis of Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase by William Shakespeare.
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcdeXeXbb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 01010101001 1111011101 1101011101 0101110100 1110001111 11110101010 1001010101 10110111110 1111011100 11010001001 0111110110 1101110100 1001110100 0101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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