This is an analysis of Sonnet 39: O, How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing by William Shakespeare.
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,
When thou art all the better part of me?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdccccdd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010111 1111010101 1111101111 1111111111 1010110101 1111110101 1101010111 1101111001 1101001111 00111010111 0101010101 1111110101 1111010111 1101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
mine, own
Anaphora
that
