This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence that begins with:
So take my vows and scatter them to sea;
Who swears the sweetest is no more than human....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccX dcdcee
- 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: 1111110001 11010011110 1111011101 100111111010 1111110111 110010100110 1101011101 110101010110 1111110111 0111010011 0101010111 1111111101 11110101010 01110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, it, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.
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