This is an analysis of the poem Xxxvi Life-In-Love that begins with:
Not in thy body is thy life at all
But in this lady's lips and hands and eyes;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabba cddcXX
- 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: 1011001111 1001011111 1111111100 1101010111 1110010101 0101010101 1110011101 1010101100100 10111101101 1101011101 11111101101 101110101101 11010011000 11110110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; and, even are repeated.
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