This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xviii that begins with:
THe rolling wheele that runneth often round,
The hardest steele in tract of time doth teare:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcXccdcdXX
- 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: 0101110101 0101010111 1101110101 01011001001 11010100101 1110010011 1101101101 11010111001 1111111111 1111110101110 11111101101 111111011010 1111111101 1111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- 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, she, when, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
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