This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xx that begins with:
IN vaine I seeke and sew to her for grace,
and doe myne humbled hart before her poure:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbXbbXXXcc
- 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: 0111110011 1111010101 0101101111 1111100101 11010101010 110110101 001110001 0101100111 111111101 110101010 1100010110 110100010 101101111 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 587
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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