This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xv: The Photograph that begins with:
Phoebus Apollo, from Olympus driven,
Lived at Admetus, tending herds and flocks:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXccXaXXadd
- 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: 10010001010 1110010111 11010010101 11011101010 1111010101 0100010101 1101010100 110111011010 11010001010 0101010001 1111010111 11110111110 0101011111 0111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- 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, his are repeated.
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More information about poems by Christopher Pearse Cranch
- Analysis of Sonnet Xvi. The Spectroscope.
- Analysis of Sonnet Xvii. The Microscope.
- Analysis of Sonnet Xviii. The Fireside.
