This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Ii: Bridal Birth that begins with:
As when desire, long darkling, dawns, and first
The mother looks upon the newborn child,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadefdef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010110111 0101010101 10111011111 1011110101 1001100101 11001010111 10001010111 1111010101 1101011101 0101011111 0110111101 10011100101 0101011101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, our are repeated.
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