This is an analysis of Sonnet Lxxii by William Shakespeare.
O, lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcacaXdXdee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101111001 1101011111 1011110111 1101110101 01110111001 0111111110 111101011 1101110001 1111111100 1111110101 1101011100 1111011111 1111111111 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
you, me
