This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xci: Lost On Both Sides that begins with:
As when two men have loved a woman well,
Each hating each, through Love's and Death's deceit;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdXcdX
- 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: 1111110101 1101111101 1111001101 1011000101 11001011101 1111010111 1101110111 0111110011 11011100111 0111101101 1101110101 1111010101 1101011101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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