This is an analysis of the poem Sonnett Vi: A Nuptial Sleep that begins with:
At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:
And as the last slow sudden drops are shed... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110011 1101110111 01001110111 1101010011 110100001001 01010010110 0011111111 10111011101 1101010101 1111011101 1011110111 0101111101 1011001111 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 666
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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