This is an analysis of the poem Licia Sonnets 34 that begins with:

Pale are my looks, forsaken of my life,
Cinders my bones, consume'd with thy flame, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1111010011 1011100011 1111010101 1111100101 1101010111 1100111101 0111000111 111001111 0111011111 1101101111 1111110111 1101110101 1101111001 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
  • 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; my, i are repeated.

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