This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Ci: The One Hope that begins with:

When vain desire at last and vain regret
Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbbXcb
  • 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: 11010111101 1101011101 1101010001 1101000001 1101011101 1101110011 1101011110 11011100100 1101101101 01010010101 1101010101 11110100110 1100111101 11111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 605
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • 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, vain are repeated.

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