This is an analysis of Sonnet Cxviii by William Shakespeare.

Like as, to make our appetites more keen,
With eager compounds we our palate urge,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedeff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101110111 0101011101 1001110001 1100110111 1011010111010 01010011110 11011101010 00011111110 11000100101 0110110101 1101000101 1101011101 1111110101 1101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

we, to, our, of