Sonnet 58: That God Forbid, That Made Me First Your Slave by William Shakespeare: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 58: That God Forbid, That Made Me First Your Slave that begins with:

That god forbid, that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1101111111 11010111010 111110101001 10110101110 1111010111 10101001100 11010100111 0101010100 0111110011 1111110011 0110010101 1101001101 1101110101 1111000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 614
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, you, to, self are repeated.

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