This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet IV that begins with:
I could not think of thee as piecèd rot,
Yet such thou wert, for thou hadst been long dead;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXdedeXc
- 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: 111101111 1111111011 11101001101 1111011101 11110100110 110111100 11001111010 0111011100 1111111111 010010010111 10010101001 1001011111 1111011100 011100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 605
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word yet is repeated.
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