This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xi: The Love-Letter that begins with:
Warmed by her hand and shadowed by her hair
As close she leaned and poured her heart through thee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbacccccX
- 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: 1101110101 1111110111 100010010100 0111111101 110011000101 1111010101 11100011101 11010011001 1111011111 01000101001 1011010001 1111110011 11100101001 0111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 660
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
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