This is an analysis of Sonnet 57: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend by William Shakespeare.
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdedeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1011111111 010101101010 1111011101 11000111010 11110101110 1111010111 11010001010 1111110101 1111001101 1110110101 1101111101 1111110111 1101011010 1111011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
you
Anaphora
nor