This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet. Go Thou That Vainly Do'st Mine Eyes Invite that begins with:
Go thou that vainly do'st mine eyes invite
To taste the softer comforts of the night, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011101 0101010001 1111010011 01110101101 0111100101 1111010101 1111011101 1011011101 01110011010 11011111010 11001111111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 557
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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