This is an analysis of Sonnet 51: Thus Can My Love Excuse The Slow Offence by William Shakespeare.

Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
Of my dull bearer, when from thee I speed:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xabaacacbabacc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010110 0111010111 0111111111 1101010011 1101011111 1101001111 1111110101 010001110111 11110101011 110100101101 1100110001001 1111110111 1011011101 01111111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

i, love