This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Ix that begins with:
LOng-while I sought to what I might compare
those powrefull eies, which lighte[n] my dark spright,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbcbXXcXcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011101 11001110111 1111110111 0101001101 1001111111 1001111110 10010111101 10010110111 1001011110 10010111110 111011101 11111001010 1001011100 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 641
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; i, for, they, to, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
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