This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxii: Heart's Haven that begins with:
Sometimes she is a child within mine arms,
Cowering beneath dark wings that love must chase,—... 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: 0110010111 10001111111 01110010101 1010010101 1101110101 1101000101 0111010111 1101010101 1111111111 1101011101 11010011001 1011011101 1111010001 11001011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 629
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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