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:…
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
