This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xlvii: Read In My Face that begins with:
Read in my face a volume of despairs,
The wailing Iliads of my tragic woe, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeaeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1011010001 0101001101 1011110011 1101111101 1111111111 1001010001 1111010001 0011101101 1111100101 1110100101 0101110001 01110100101 1101010100 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, her, to are repeated.
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