This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxi that begins with:

THe glorious image of the makers beautie,
My souerayne faynt, the Idoll of my thought,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaaXXXXXXXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01001000101 1101010011 111110101 1001110111 1101101001 1001010101 10010111 1010001110 0101010001 0101110110 1100011111 1110011101 11010110100 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • 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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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  • summary of Sonnet Lxi;
  • central theme;
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