This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 54 that begins with:
Of this worlds theatre in which we stay,
My love like the spectator ydly sits... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcXcadadee
- 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: 0011000111 1110100101 0101110101 1001001101 0111110101 1101100100 1101110101 1111110100 1101010101 0110111111 1111111111 1111010101 1111001111 10110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 568
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; she is repeated.
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