This is an analysis of Sonnet 40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All by William Shakespeare.
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXXXXcdcdee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111111101 1111111101 1111111111 1111011101 10111111100 11011111110 11010111100 11010111100 11011100101 1111111100 1111000101 01111101100 01001011111 11010111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
love, thou, my, all
