This is an analysis of Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly? by William Shakespeare.
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10011111010 1011110101 11111110110 1110010101 001110110001 1101010111 1111011101 0100011111 11111100010 11011100100 0100101111010 1101110111 11011010101 1001101011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
thou, one
