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?…

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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