This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lx. To An Amiable Girl that begins with:
MIRANDA! mark where shrinking from the gale,
Its silken leaves yet moist with early dew,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXefff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0101110001 0101110101 11110010001 1011111011 10010010101 0101010101 1101010001 01010000101 0101010101 01010101000 0101011101 0101000101 0111010101 0101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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