This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Li: Calling To Mind that begins with:
Calling to mind, since first my love begun,
Th'uncertain times oft varying in their course, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaaacdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111110 10011100011 1111010011 10101111001 1011100011 1011110101 0101011101 0111011101 11011101010 1011110111 10110111010 10011010101 1111110101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- 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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