This is an analysis of Sonnet Xvii by William Shakespeare.
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcccXdedeaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001110101 0001011110 11101001101 1111111111 0111010011 10110101110 0101111101 110010111010 11110100011 0111101111 1111010101 11101011 1011010111 1111001011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
your
Anaphora
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