This is an analysis of Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun by William Shakespeare.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebebff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101110101 1001111011 0101110111 010101101101 11110100111 1111011001 1010101101 1001101101 1101011111 1101011101 1111010101 1101111101 11110111111 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

her, in, i

Anaphora

if