This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet. Milton that begins with:

Oh bard! what though upon thy mortal eyes
There fell no glimmering ray of earthly light,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddcbccbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111011101 11110010101 1011100101 1011110111 11001101010 0101010011 1111110101 11110100010 1011101101 0101010101 11011100101 1011011101 0110001111 0111011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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