This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxii: The Soul's Sphere that begins with:
Some prisoned moon in steep cloud-fastnesses,—
Throned queen and thralled; some dying sun whose pyre... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabbccbcddccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011100 1011101101110 10010100010 1111110101 1101110001 1001010111 10000001001 10110100100 1111010011 01110110001 0101001001 1001010111 11000010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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