This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 32 - The First Time That The Sun Rose On Thine Oath that begins with:
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The first time that the sun rose on thine oath... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbaXbbXccccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1 0111011111 0111110001 0101111111 1101010101 1101111101 1101111111 111100011101 110010101 0101011101 0111011101 1011111111 0111101111 110101001000 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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