Introduction to Literary Analysis Essay

Happy is England! I could be content

Metre

The common metre style in the Italien sonnet is the iambic (line 1-8). But in line 9, 11, 13 and 14 the iambic is interrupted by the trochaic style. These lines rhyme with each other (daughters,waters; clinging,singing) and show a hexametre instead of a pentametre.

Rhyme

The form of the sonnet shows us an end rhyme with an embracing rhyme scheme from line 1 to line 8 (abba). The next 6 lines have got different rhyme schemes witch I can not analyse (cde;dec) .
In line 2 and 3 as same as in line 10 and 11 I found an initial rhyme (to..no other; enough their).
Within line 7 the sonnet show an rich rhyme (upon-on-throne).
And within line 8 I found an identical rhyme (world-wordling).

Syntax

In Line 2 and 3 the words follow one after anot...