This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxv: Known In Vain that begins with:
As two whose love, first foolish, widening scope,
Knows suddenly, to music high and soft,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbaXcdccd
- 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: 11111101001 1100010111 01001010111 1101011101 00110111011 1111011111 0111111101 0100110101 11011010100 1110011101 1011111111 1111011111 111100001 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- 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.
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