This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 18 - I Never Gave A Lock Of Hair Away that begins with:
XVIII
I never gave a lock of hair away... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaXaXaaabcbXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1 1101010101 0011001001 1101110100 1110011111 1111011101 1111010111 1110011101 1111010101 1111110101 1100011101 11011101001 11011101000 10100010110 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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; my is repeated.
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