This is an analysis of Sonnets Viii by William Shakespeare.

THAT time of year thou may'st in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXcXcbb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101110101 1101111111 0111110101 1101110111 0111011011 1101110001 1111111101 1101111101 01110100110 1101000111 1011100101 0101101101 1110111111 1111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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