This is an analysis of the poem Licia Sonnets 44 that begins with:

Cruel fair love, I justly do complain
Of too much rigor and thy heart unkind, ... 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: 1011110101 0111011101 1111111101 1111111101 1111111111 1111111101 1101100101 101001101 1101011011 1001110001 1111010101 1011010111 1111101101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; love, and are repeated.

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

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