This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lviii By Her That Is Most Assured To Her Selfe that begins with:

WEake is th'assurance that weake flesh reposeth,
In her owne powre and scorneth others ayde:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXaXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10100111100 0011110101 11011111100 0110100110 110111011 1011010101 101100111 0101111010 11111111111 11010101010 1111010101 11011111100 1111111011 101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; on is repeated.

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