Sonnet Xxviii: Reign In My Thoughts by Samuel Daniel: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxviii: Reign In My Thoughts that begins with:

Reign in my thoughts, fair hand, sweet eye, rare voice:
Possess me whole, my heart's triumvirate; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdedebcbcff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011111111 0111110100 1101011101 01111101010 1111110101 1111100101 1101110111 1111110101 1111111101 1101011011 1111010101 1011010101 1111111111 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.

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