This is an analysis of the poem Licia Sonnets 37 that begins with:

I speak, fair Licia, what my torments be,
But then my speech too partial do I find; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacadedeff
  • 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: 1111011110 1111110111 1101101101 1111010101 1111111101 1111101111 11011110011 1111011111 1111111111 1101111101 0101110111 0111111101 1111010011 1010110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • 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; my, i are repeated.

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