This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xv that begins with:
TO MISS AUGUSTA COWELL.
[To whom I owe the popularity of some of my favourite ballads.] ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa ababcdcdebebff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010 0111010100010110010 111101101001 1001010101 1001000101 0111110111 11111001001 1101010111 1111001101 10101001111 11110011110 10010001101 10110111010 11010010101 0100110101 1001010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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 Xv;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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