This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xix: Restore Thy Tresses that begins with:

Restore thy tresses to the golden ore,
Yield Citherea's son those arcs of love, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccccdedeff
  • 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: 0111000101 110011101 0101011101 101011101 1111101001 1001011101 0111100101 0101010011 1101110001 1111111001 1101111101 0101010101 1001011101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; thy, and are repeated.

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