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
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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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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