This is an analysis of Sonnets Ii by William Shakespeare.

WHEN, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcbdbdbaa
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1001010111 1101101111 11011001101 1101111111 1011011101 1011110110 01000111111 0111010101 10111111010 1011111111 10011101010 0101111101 1111100111 1111011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and, my, like

Anaphora

and