This is an analysis of Sonnet 63: Against My Love Shall Be, As I Am Now by William Shakespeare.

Against my love shall be, as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crushed and o'erworn;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcdXeXebb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0111101111 010100111100 11011011101 0111010101 1101010101 1111010111 1100110101 10010100001 1101111101 0101010101 1111010100 1111011101 0101011101 1111110011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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