This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 23 - Is It Indeed So? If I Lay Here Dead that begins with:
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Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbaaXbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1 0001101111 1111010101 1101111101 0101110111 11001010111 111001011100 1110111111 1111011101 01011011101 11111110011 1101011101 1101110101 1101111101 11110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, me are repeated.
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