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…
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