This is an analysis of Sonnet 64: When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand Defaced by William Shakespeare.
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcdaeaeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111111101 0111010101 11110101111 1101010101 1111010101 0101010001 10111001001 0101011101 1111110101 1101010001 1011110101 1101111101 0101011101 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
