This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet. I Prethee Turn That Face Away that begins with:
I prethee turn that face away
Whose splendour but benights my day. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaXcXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 11010111 11111101 101101101 01000111 00111101 11110101 1100010 111111011 1101010010 11011101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 446
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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