This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets that begins with:
Mors Christi.
And am I here, and my Redeemer gone ?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbaaccbbddeefX X gghhaaggiihhjjeekk X aaaaffXXaagXXXkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,1,18,1,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110 1111111001 1101101111 11110010010 11111111010 0111011101 1111100101 01101000101 1111011101 11010111010 101101011110 111101011 1101111011 111100001010 11110111010 1111111101 0101011101 11 1101110101 11011100111 11011101101 1101110101 1101110111 1111111101 1101110101 1011111111 1101100101 11011000101 1101100111 0101011101 1101110111 0101010111 11011101110 11010101010 1111110111 1110111111111 10010 1101110101 0111110101 110111001 11001010100 1111010100 01101111101 110100111100 110100110010 11000101010 111000101010 01001001001 1101001010 1101010100 1011011100 11010011001 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 385
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, be, so, he, his, nor, to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
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