This is an analysis of Sonnet 97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been by William Shakespeare.
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefbb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101011100 0101000101 1101111111 11010100101 1101011101 0101010101 1001010001 1101101101 1001010101 11010110001 1101010111 1101010111 1011101101 1111100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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