This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 11 that begins with:
Which are the clouds, and which the mountains? See,
They mix and melt together! Yon blue hill... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabXbacddece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110101 1111010111 1101010101 1101010101 1111110111 1111010100 1101011100 0101010111 1100110111 0111110101 0100010101 1111011111 01010010101 1011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; which, and are repeated.
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