This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxv. To Fortitude that begins with:
NYMPH of the rock! whose dauntless spirit braves
The beating storm, and bitter winds that howl... full text
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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: 1001110101 0101110111 1111110101 1011000101 1111110111 1111011101 00110100100 11010100001 1011011101 10111010011 1101110101 0101110101 1111010101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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 is repeated.
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