This is an analysis of Sonnet 9: Is It For Fear To Wet A Widow's Eye by William Shakespeare.
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,
That thou consum'st thy self in single life?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddedeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0011010101 1110110101 1011001101 01011101001 0100110111 1111011101 11001010111 1101010101 1111000111 11011101010 1101100111 11010101010 11011001101 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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