This is an analysis of the poem Holy Sonnet Iv: Oh My Black Soul! that begins with:
Oh my black soul! now art thou summoned
By sickness, death's herald, and champion;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbcbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111111110 1101101100 11101010111 10111101101 1101111101 1001010010 1111001010 1011110010 1101011111 1111111001 1111010101 1101011101 1110111101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; thou, with are repeated.
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