This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets Xlix: L: Li: Lii: Willowwood that begins with:

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I sat with Love upon a woodside well,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a baabbcabddXeeX X facffaafghhggh X XiXijijiXjjjff X dXadXaadkkbhhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101010111 1001010111 1100111111 1101011100 0101011101 1011011100 0011111100 01001111111 1111010110 1001100110 11001110111 1011010101 1111011101 1001010111 1 1111101101 1101010101 11100010100 1110111101 1111010011 11011111001 1101111111 0101111111 1111111101 11010010001 1011010011 11001111101 1111111101 1111111110 1 1111110100 1101010101 1101011100 11110101111 1101110111 1111110101 1101110001 1111011101 0101010100 0111011101 0101010101 1101011101 1011010101 1100110100 1 1111110111 0101101100 1111110101 0111010111 1101100110 1011111111 1011100101 1101111011 1011111111 0110010111 0111011101 1111111111 11110101011 1111000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i, and, his, for, once, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, what, your are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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  • idea of the verse;
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