This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet To Harriet St. Leger that begins with:
Whene'er I recollect the happy time
When you and I held converse dear together,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcddXdXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 10011010101 11111101010 11010101010 0101010111 11001110011 01010100001 0101110111 11001011100 1101011101 1101010111 1101010111 1111010100 1111011101 101100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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