This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxx: I See Thine Image that begins with:
I see thine image through my tears to-night,
And yet to-day I saw thee smiling. How... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- 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: 1111011101 1101111101 0101010001 1111110101 0101011101 1111011001 10101111111 01010111101 11001010101 01011110111 0101111101 10101010101 1111011101 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
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