This is an analysis of Sonnets Xiii by William Shakespeare.

FROM you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01110100001 1111010101 11010010101 1101011101 1101011011 010010010101 1111010101 1011110111 1011010111 1101010001 1011110001 1101110011 1101011101 1011110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

in

Anaphora

nor