This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxx: On Being Cautioned Against Walking On An Headland Overlooking The Sea, Because It Was Frequented By A Lunatic that begins with:
Is there a solitary wretch who hies
To the tall cliff, with starting pace or slow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababcbcdedeaa
- 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 0011010111 11001011101 0100011101 1101110101 1011010101 0111010001 10001000101 0101010101 1111010101 1111100011 01010101001 11100010101 0110110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 593
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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