This is an analysis of Sonnet 109: O, Never Say That I Was False Of Heart by William Shakespeare.

O, never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seemed my flame to qualify.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcbbbbdd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101111101 1101110101 1101101101 1011101111 1011010111 1111010101 1001100101 1111110111 1001101101 1101011101 10111000001 0111011100 1100110111 1111001111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

my, that, all

Anaphora

as