This is an analysis of Sonnet 154: The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep by William Shakespeare.
The little love god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbXdXdee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101110101 1101010101 1101111101 1101100101 01010011110 1101001111 11010001010 1101010101 0111000111 10110110100 1001110100 11100111101 1111101111 11011010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
