This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xliv: Press'D By The Moon that begins with:
Press'd by the Moon, mute arbitress of tides,
While the loud equinox its power combines,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabccbdbbdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110001 10110101001 0111010111 110010110001 0111000101 1011001101 1011010101 1101010001 0111110101 1111000101 1100011101 1101010011 1111111110 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- 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; from is repeated.
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