This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Ii that begins with:
RAPHAEL.
BLESS'D wert thou, whom Death, and not Decay, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abaXcbcbdXdXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 101 111111101 10011111001 1111011101 0111011000 1111110101 1111011001 01010111001 1101010101 1111011101 1011111110 1011010101 1111111101 1011010101 011101010000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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