This is an analysis of the poem A Sequence Of Sonnets On The Death Of Robert Browning that begins with:

I1.
The clearest eyes in all the world they read... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa b b a a b b a c c d X d Xd c c d d c c d b b X b X Xe a a e e a a e f f g f g Xh i i h h i i Xe e i e i XXd c c d X c X d c c d c X Xa h h a a h h a i i e i e Xa j j a a j j a i i k i k X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0101010111 01111100111 1111011101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110111 1111010111 11101101001 0101111101 110010001 110010001 1111110111 11011100101 1101001110100000101011 1111010111 1011110111 01010110101 0101111101 1111010111 1111111111 11110111111 0111010101 1111111111 01010110101 110110101111 1111110111 1111110101 11111001010 0101011111 1011010101 1101000101 1100010101 0101011101 1111010101 1101011111 11110111001 11111100101 01010010101 1111110111 1101111101 111011111111 1111001110110 1101111101 1101111111 1111010101 01010010111 1101111101 1111001101 1111010101 01010100110 1111110111 0100011101 1001010001 1101111101 11011101011 011101010100000101011 1 0101010111 1111110111 11010111001 010010001001 01010011111 11001011101 1111111101 1101011101 11011111001 1111010111 1101001111 1111001111 1111010110 01010101010 1101010101 01011100101 1101111111 11110010101 1101111101 0111111101 1101011111 1111111111 110011100101 11111001011 0101011101 0101011100 1111111111 010101111000 1111110111 1111110101 0101010111 11011111101 1101111111 101011011111 1111100111 11001000101 1111011111 1111000111 11001110101 1101011001 11111101001 111111100100001010110110000000100001010010100001010101000010110010100110110111000100001011001011010100100010000101101010000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 36
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 190
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, him, no, gift, what are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, no, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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