This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xiii: Youth's Antiphony that begins with:
“I love you, sweet: how can you ever learn
How much I love you?” “You I love even so,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddccX
- 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: 1111111101 11111111101 1111011101 1111010101 1111011101 1111011111 11111101001 1101110111 1101011111 0111110111 101010010011 11011101001 1111011100 11111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, how, love are repeated.
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