This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet V: Heart's Hope that begins with:
By what word's power, the key of paths untrod,
Shall I the difficult deeps of Love explore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbaabcdXddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110010110 11010010101 1101011101 10111110110 1101110100 1011111101 1111101101 1011101101 1011111111 1011011100 1011111101 10111110101 11010010101 011100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, from, and are repeated.
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