This is an analysis of Sonnet 113: Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is In My Mind by William Shakespeare.

Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind,
And that which governs me to go about…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcbdbdee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111110011 1111010101 1101010101 1101100001 1011010001 01010111011 0011010111 1011011011 10010111001 01110110010 0101010111 01110100110 0100010101 1111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

it, of, or

Anaphora

of, the