This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xcvi: Life The Beloved that begins with:
As thy friend's face, with shadow of soul o'erspread,
Somewhile unto thy sight perchance hath been... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbaXXcdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111101101100 10010110110 1011110101 01101100101 1111110101 01001011101 11001110111 111101001000 1101110111 10111010100 10110110101 1111100101 010010011110 10110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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