This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Ii: Not At First Sight that begins with:
Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot
Love gave the wound, which while I breathe will bleed; ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cac add
- 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: 111110011 1101111101 1110010101 1101011101 111111111 1111011101 1101011101 1010011101 11011101100 0111111101 1101010100 1101010011 0111011101 1001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, now are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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