This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 79: Sweet Kiss, Thy Sweets I Fain that begins with:
Sweet kiss, thy sweets I fain would sweetly endite,
Which even of sweetness sweetest sweet'ner art: ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa aaaa bXb XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111111010 11001010101 1001111101 11011101001 11110010101 0101110001 1111010001 1011110001 1001110111 0101111111 0101110101 1111100101 1001111110 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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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