This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 29 - I Think Of Thee!&Mdash;My Thoughts Do Twine And Bud that begins with:

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I think of thee!—my thoughts do twine and bud... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abbaabXacbcbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1 11010011111 0111110101 11111111101 0101011101 1111100101 1011110101 11101010100 0111010111 1011111111 111101001101 110010010101 01001101111 1101111011 111101001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • 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; thy is repeated.

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