This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet. The Double Rock that begins with:
Since thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grown
A solid stone: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXXXddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110111 0101 0101010111 0111 1101010001 1111110011 1111011101 0101 1101110101 1111 1100110001 1011010101 1101110001 0111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 501
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our is repeated.
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