This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 64: When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand Defaced that begins with:
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcdaeaeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111111101 0111010101 11110101111 1101010101 1111010101 0101010001 10111001001 0101011101 1111110101 1101010001 1011110101 1101111101 0101011101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- 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.
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