This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet. To Patience that begins with:
Down stormy passions, down; no more
Let your rude waves invade the shore ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXcbbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11110101 11010111 00010011 110011111 11110101 11000101 01010111 1110111 11110101 11110110 10110101 11011111 100111011 01001011 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 581
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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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