This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet I that begins with:
HAppy ye leaues when as those lilly hands,
which hold my life in their dead doing might... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcXccaXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1011111101 1111011101 1101110111 11010010101 1101110101 1101010101 11010001101 10010011101 11010100101 010111100 110111011 11111111 11110100101 1011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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