This is an analysis of the poem Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me that begins with:
Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
Repair me now, for now mine end doth haste;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbaacacbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111101 0111111111 1101111111 1111011101 1111111101 0101110111 1101110111 11001001111 10110111011 1111111101 1111011101 11110111101 1111100101 11110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, and, doth, i are repeated.
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