This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xlv: Secret Parting that begins with:
Because our talk was of the cloud-control
And moon-track of the journeying face of Fate,... 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: 0111100101 11100100101 01001010111 1011010101 11010001101 01101100101 0111010101 1111010101 1011110111 01010110101 11001110111 1101110101 0011010001 11111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 631
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her are repeated.
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