This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet X: Yet Love, Mere Love that begins with:
Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010001 110010001001 1101111101 1001010111 11010111111 1110011011 11100010110 0100011101 10110111101 01110101010 1111011101 111100010010010 01110110111 11110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 661
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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