This is an analysis of Sonnet 129: Th' Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame by William Shakespeare.
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and, till action, lust…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdadaee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10101000101 0101011101 01010010101 1001110101 011101100001 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1001100101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1001111111 01010111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
of, in, and
Anaphora
is, past
Anadiplosis
mad
