This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet that begins with:
SUGGESTED BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE OBSERVING THAT WE NEVER DREAM OF OURSELVES YOUNGER THAN WE ARE.
Not in our dreams, not even in our dreams ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBBccbbdbdXebeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110100101110100110111 1011110011 1011110011 1101011101 1101010011 1111011101 01110011011 1111010101 11011101011 11110010100 1101011000 1101011101 11110010101 1111011110 1110110101 11001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 745
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; not, dreams, our, in, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dreams is repeated).
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