This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 14 - If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Nought that begins with:
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If thou must love me, let it be for nought... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaabbXabcXcacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1 0111110011 0111110111 1101010001001 01010000101 1101011101 01010111010 1110010101 01111100111 1010110111 11110101110 0101010111 1101111111 1111111101 1111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; her, for, of are repeated.
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