This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 02: Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied that begins with:

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba XcddXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111011111 1111111011 1110010001 1111010001 01110100101 11111101001 1111010101 1111111101 1101010111 01000010011 11000011101 1101011101 11100110001100 11110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • 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, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of Sonnet 02: Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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