This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxxviii: How Can My Muse Want Subject To Invent by William Shakespeare.
How can my muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcacadXdaee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111101001 1111110011 1111001100 11001010001 1111010101 1001010111 1111110101 1111110101 0101111101 1111110100 1111111111 0101001111 01111111001 0101111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
thy
