This is an analysis of Sonnet 30: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought by William Shakespeare.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaababacXcXdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001001101 1101010011 11010100111 1011111111 1111110101 11011011001 1101111101 111010100101 1111110011 11000101110 010101100001 1111101101 1001111111 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, of
Anaphora
i, and
