This is an analysis of Sonnet Liii by William Shakespeare.
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcdcdcbb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1011010111 1100111111 110011100111 11111100111 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 11010101101 10001110001 0111101101 0101110101 1101001111 0101011111 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
one, you, every, of
Anaphora
the
