This is an analysis of Sonnet 58: That God Forbid, That Made Me First Your Slave by William Shakespeare.

That god forbid, that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101111111 11010111010 111110101001 10110101110 1111010111 10101001100 11010100111 0101010100 0111110011 1111110011 0110010101 1101001101 1101110101 1111000111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

your, you, to, self