This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xviii that begins with:
SINCE in the pleasant time of opening flowers
That flow'r, Her life, was doom'd to fade away,-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddedebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 100101010010 1101110101 10111101010 1101010101 100010111001 1101011111 1110011100 1101000101 1111110101 1101011101 1101110101 1110010101 11011010001 100101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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 Xviii;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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