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

TO THE COUNTESS HELÉNE ZAVADOWSKY.
WHEN our young Queen put on her rightful crown ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ababbcbcadadbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 001011000 1111110101 0101001101 01011100111 11110100101 01101100101 0110110101 1011000101 0111011101 1111111101 1101010101 1100111111 1101001101 1101110101 1011011101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, thy are repeated.

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

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  • central theme;
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