This is an analysis of the poem A Sonnet To Heavenly Beauty that begins with:
If this our little life is but a day
In the Eternal, - if the years in vain ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccdeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0011010101 0001000001 11010110101 0101110101 1101011101 1111110101 1001010111 1111110101 100110011010 11011101010 1101111101 11001101011 0101010101 1100011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; if, thou, and, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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