This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 81: Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph To Make that begins with:
Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111110101 11011101110 0111001101 11011100010 1101010111 1111010111 0111110101 111000001111 1100101101 11110101101 1100110101 1101000111 1111000101110 11111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 649
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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