This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxxxv: Vain Virtues that begins with:
What is the sorriest thing that enters Hell?
None of the sins,—but this and that fair deed... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadefdef
- 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: 1001011101 1001101111 1011111101 1111011101 1111010101 01010111001 0101010101 10110001000 1101010001 1111000101 01010111111 11110100111 0111010101 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 650
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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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