This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxxxii: Hoarded Joy that begins with:
I said: “Nay, pluck not,—let the first fruit be:
Even as thou sayest, it is sweet and red,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbacdcdaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110110 10111000111 1101010111 1001010100 11001010111 10110110101 11110101001 1100011101 1101111101 11110111001 10110101001 1111010101 0101011101 1011110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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