This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xvi that begins with:
ONe day as I vnwarily did gaze
on those fayre eyes my loues immortall light:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbccbcbXX
- 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: 111110001 1111111001 0111011001 11010001001 111100101 1001010101 10110100101 1101010101 1011010101 1001011101 110001001 0101010001 11111111101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 571
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- 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.
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- summary of Sonnet Xvi;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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