This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxxix. To The Goddess Of Botany that begins with:

OF Folly weary, shrinking from the view
Of Violence and Fraud, allow'd to take... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacaXcacdcdc
  • 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: 0101010001 0100110101 1101011101 1111011101 110111011101 0111010101 11110010001 1111010100 1011011101 110010111001 0111110101 1101000101 1001110101 110101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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