This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxvi: Mid-Rapture that begins with:
Thou lovely and beloved, thou my love;
Whose kiss seems still the first; whose summoning eyes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccabddbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010111 11110111001 10111111111 1101110101 110100011001 0101110101 1101011001 11101010100 1111001111 0111010101 11001111101 11000100111 1111110111 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
- 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; whose is repeated.
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