This is an analysis of the poem Licia Sonnets 05 that begins with:

Love with her hair my love by force hath tied,
To serve her lips, her eyes, her voice, her hand; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabcbcdedebb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001111111 0101010101 1111110110 01100111001 1011111111 1010111111 1111111101 0111111100 1010010101 1101010110 1001010111 100101111 1111111101 1001011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 640
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; her, she, or, doth, in are repeated.

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