This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xii: The Lovers' Walk that begins with:
Sweet twining hedgeflowers wind-stirred in no wise
On this June day; and hand that clings in hand:—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXXcddc
- 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: 110100011011 1011111101 1111010101 11010011101 1001110101 11010100101 0111111101 011000100111 10111110110 110100101000 11001111101 0101011101 1011010001 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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