This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxiii: The Gossamer that begins with:
O'er faded heath-flowers spun, or thorny furze,
The filmy Gossamer is lightly spread;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacdcdbabaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 101011011101 0101000101 10010010111 1101010101 01010010101 1001000101 1011010111 1101010101 1011010101 01001110101 1111010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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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