This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets (1923) that begins with:

VIII8.
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa a a X b X b X c d c d X Xe f f e e f f e b g b g b Xb a a b b a a b g g g g g Xc g g c c g g c c g d g c Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1110010111 1111111101 10110011111 100111101010 1101111101 1111111111 1111111101 11001111111 1101110111 1011110101 1101010101 1111111101 11111111110 110111110111 10011100111 10110010101 1001110101 11010100101 0111110111 1111010101 0101011101 1011000111 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 0111000101 1101110001 01110100111 1101010101 1101110011 1111100001 1101110101 0111010111 11000010101 0101011101 1111010101 11101100110 01110111001 11010101110 1101011101 11010001010 11010111011 1111111111 1101011111 1011110101 0101011111 0101110101 1011110101 11000011101 0101111001 1001010101 1111110111 1101110101 1101111111 1101110101 0101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 109
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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