This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet XIII that begins with:

When I should be asleep to mine own voice
In telling thee how much thy love's my dream,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcdaXaXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1110010111 0101111111 11110001101 01110001100 1101000101 1111110111 1111110001 1111111101 1100111100 0111010101 1101111111 0011011111 10101011111 11111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
  • Average number of words per stanza: 127
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; my, love, not, i, it, makes are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).

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  • summary of Sonnet XIII;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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