This is an analysis of Sonnet Viii by William Shakespeare.

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 10011111010 1011110101 1101111100110 11100010101 001110111 1101010111 1111011101 0100011111 11111100010 11011100100 0100101111010 1101110111 11011010101 10011101110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

thou, one