This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet IX that begins with:
Oh to be idle loving idleness!
But I am idle all in hate of me;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeceXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001010100 1111010101 1001010011 01001010100 1011110011 10011011110 1101010101 11011101010 11110001001 1100010101 01010110111 11110101110 1110111111 10001111000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- 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; in is repeated.
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- summary of Sonnet IX;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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