This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xii: That Learned Father that begins with:
To the Soul
That learned Father, who so firmly proves ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbacddceffegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 001 111011101 0101010101 11010010001 1001011110101 101011010100 1001000010001 10101010101 10011010000100 1010101010001 100101010001 100011111010 10001010010101 10010100100 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
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