This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Liv. Idle Hours. that begins with:
YE idle hours of summer, not in vain,
To one by Nature's beauty fed, ye pass —... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXcaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010010101 0111010111 11010101001 1101010001 1101010101 0101110111 1110110101 11110010101 1111010101 1101011111 110101101 1001011101 1111010001 101010001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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