This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxviii: A Dark Day that begins with:
The gloom that breathes upon me with these airs
Is like the drops which strike the traveller's brow... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbacdcdXd
- 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: 0111011011 01011101001 1111001111 1110110101 110101100110 11110000111 1101011111 1111110111 1100011111 01010000101 1111111111 101010001001 1101010001 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 666
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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.
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