This is an analysis of the poem Holy Sonnet Xvii: Since She Whom I Loved that begins with:

Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt
To Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXaabbacdcdaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111111011 01010011001 101100010100 10110011101 1001001101 0111111101 111111111111 0101010111 1111111101 11111010011 1111011101 1101110101 1011010011 1011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 615
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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