This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 01 - I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung that begins with:
I
I thought once how Theocritus had sung... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbaabbaXXcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1 111110011 0010011110 1110010101 0101110111 1111000011 11010010111 0110010100 1011111111 01101110111 1101010101 01111110101 1011010011100 11111111111 010101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 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.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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