This is an analysis of the poem Licia Sonnets 24 that begins with:

When as my love lay sickly in her bed,
Pale death did post in hope to have a prey; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababaXacacdd
  • 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: 1111110001 1101010101 1111011111 100010111111 11011101011 10111101101 1111110111 10110101010 01001010111 0101010101 1111110111 0101011011 1011010111 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 654
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; and is repeated.

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