This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lvii. To Dependence that begins with:
DEPENDENCE! heavy, heavy are thy chains,
And happier they who from the dangerous sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedede
- 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: 0101010111 110011001001 1011010101 0111011101 1101100101 1101011101 110010110101 11011100101 1101010011 11010101101 1101011101 0101011110 0101110101 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- 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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