This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet XXXI that begins with:
I am older than Nature and her Time
By all the timeless age of Consciousness,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXababbbbXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110110101 1101010100 11100100001 1111111100 1111111101 1011111111 11100101011 11110110111 110111010 1001100101 1111110101 10111001000 1111101111 11111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Sonnet XXXI;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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