This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xvi: Who Shall Invoke Her that begins with:
Who shall invoke her, who shall be her priest,
With single rites the common debt to pay?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcbdXdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011001 0101010101 1111010001 1101111101 1011000101 11110111001 10110100101 0101011101 0101010101 11110010101 1101000100 11010101101 11011011111 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- 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.
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