This is an analysis of Sonnet 75: So Are You To My Thoughts As Food To Life by William Shakespeare.

So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedeff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1110111101 11110101001 1101011111 1101010101 1111100110 10010101010 1101000101 11010111110 0111010111 111111000101 0101010101 1101110101 1111110111 1100111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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