This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet XXXIV that begins with:
Happy the maimed, the halt, the mad, the blind-
All who, stamped separate by curtailing birth,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1001010101 11110110101 1110010011 11010001101 1111110001 110100101001 1101010111 10010010001 111100101010 1001111101 10111001010 11011100011 11110100101 1111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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- summary of Sonnet XXXIV;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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