This is an analysis of the poem His Last Sonnet that begins with:
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art! -
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbcbcXaXadd
- 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: 1111011111 1011010101 1100010101 1101010100 0101011101 0110011101 1101011101 0101010101 111111100 100011111001 0111001111 0111000101 1101010101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of His Last Sonnet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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