This is an analysis of Sonnet 104: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old by William Shakespeare.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaababaaaaXa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111110101 1110111111 1111011101 1001011101 11001010101 0110010111 1100101111 1111111111 1111010101 1001011101 1111110111 1101111001 1101101110 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
three
