This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxiv: Ardour And Memory that begins with:
The cuckoo-throb, the heartbeat of the Spring;
The rosebud's blush that leaves it as it grows... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXccacddccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01110110001 01001110101 0001111001 01011101001 01001110100 01010010111 11111100101 1101000111 11011100111 1111110101 0111010001 10101110101 0111010101 0101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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