This is an analysis of the poem Holy Sonnet Xi: Spit In My Face You Jewes that begins with:
Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side,
Buffet, and scoffe, scourge, and crucifie mee, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbaXcXcdd
- 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: 10111101111 011111101 11111111001 111110011 1111110101 110111010100 11110100111 10110101101 1111011101 1101111100 11011011010 1001101001 1110011111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- 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; and is repeated.
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