This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Life: The Sonnet that begins with:
A Sonnet is a moment's monument,
Memorial from the Soul's eternity... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaabca dXdXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0100010100 01000010100 01110101100 10110111010 00110010100 10010010100 1111111111 010011001101 0100010101 01010011011 10110001001 0111011101 01110111001 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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