This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xii that begins with:
I STAND beside the waves,--the mournful waves,--
Where thou didst stand in silence and in fear, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdececff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 1101110101 10010001001 10010010101 0101010101 1101110001 1001110101 0011011111 1011011101 1111100101 0101000101 10110100100011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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- summary of Sonnet Xii;
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- critical appreciation.
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