This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 24 - Let The World's Sharpness, Like A Clasping Knife that begins with:
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Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbaXbbacdcXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1 1011010101 1001011111 0011011111 1111110101 1001001010100 1101110101 1111110101 0101010101 1101010101 0100111101 1100110100 010100111110 1011011101 11011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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