This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xliv: Cloud And Wind that begins with:
Love, should I fear death most for you or me?
Yet if you die, can I not follow you,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbXcddccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111111 1011111101 1001010111 11010110000 11110011100 0100110111 1011111101 110010010100 1011011101 01010011111 1101010111 1111111111 01011111101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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