This is an analysis of the poem Holy Sonnet Xiii: What If This Present Were The World's Last Night? that begins with:
What if this present were the world's last night?
Mark in my heart, O soul, where thou dost dwell,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbaXccXdd
- 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: 1000100111 1011111111 0100110111 1011001110 1001100101 1101100111 1111011101 1101010111 1111010100 1101101100 1001010100 0101011101 01010110101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- 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; his is repeated.
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