This is an analysis of Sonnet Lxxx by William Shakespeare.
O, how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeaeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110111 10010101111 1001111101 0111110011 1111110100 0101010111 11010100100 1111110001 11001011101 1101110111 1101110101 1011010101 1011110101 0110111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
