This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xvii. From The Thirteenth Cantata Of Metastasio that begins with:
ON thy grey bark, in witness of my flame,
I carve Miranda's cypher--Beauteous tree!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111010011 1101010101 1001010001 1101001111 1011011101 0101111101 0101101101 1101011101 11110011101 1101110101 11110010111 1011110111 10110100111 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- 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, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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