This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Iii: Love's Testament that begins with:
O thou who at Love's hour ecstatically
Unto my heart dost evermore present,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcabXcdeXdde
- 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: 11111100100 1011110101 10010110100 1111111100 01001001010 1011111101 0100110111 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 0011110011 1101000101 11110100111 1111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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