This is an analysis of the poem Licia Sonnets 32 that begins with:

Years, months, days, hours, in sighs I sadly spend;
I black the night wherein I sleepless toss; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebebee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 01110011101 1101011101 1111110111 1101100111 1101110111 1011100101 1111110001 1111011101 1111110111 1110011101 1101110101 1111111111 11011011101 1011111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, my, love are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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