This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lviii. The Glow-Worm that begins with:
WHEN on some balmy-breathing night of Spring
The happy child, to whom the world is new,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXdedeff
- 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: 11110101001 0101010101 0101010101 10011101001 11010001001 01011101001 1011011111 10010111110 11110111010 11110100101 11110110010 1001010001 0101010101 110111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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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More information about poems by Charlotte Smith
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- Analysis of Song I
- Analysis of Sonnet Xxi. Supposed To Written By Werter