This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 73: Love Still A Boy that begins with:
Love still a boy, and oft a wanton is,
School'd only by his mother's tender eye: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba baba ccdXbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110100 1101010101 1101010101 1111011111 1111010101 0111110101 1111111100 1011011101 1111110101 0101111111 1101010101 1101111101 1001010101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- 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.
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