This is an analysis of Sonnet 128: How Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st by William Shakespeare.
How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st,
Upon that blessèd wood whose motion sounds…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcdedeee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110101 011100011101 0111011101 0101111101 1110111101 0101010011 1111111101 1011011101 0011011111 1101001101 10111010101 1011111101 1101110100 1011011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
