This is an analysis of Sonnet 139: O, Call Not Me To Justify The Wrong by William Shakespeare.

O, call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdddXee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1110010111 1110111011 110010111111 1111111011 1110011101 1111010111 011110000111 11011101111 0101101100 1110111111 11111111000 1111111111 1111011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

with, not, me, my