This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets From The Portuguese I that begins with:
I THOUGHT once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wish'd-for years, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXcdcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111110011 1010011110 1110010101 0101110111 1111000011 11010010111 1110010100 1011111111 01101110111 1101010101 01111110101 10110100111 1111111111 11010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 760
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- 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; me is repeated.
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