This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet. Tell Me You Stars That Our Affections Move that begins with:
Tell me you stars that our affections move,
Why made ye me that cruell one to love? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101 111111101 111101101 1101110111 10010011100 1101010011 1110111111 1100011101 1110110111 11100110101 11111001010 11110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 533
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
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