This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet I. To My Brother George that begins with:
Many the wonders I this day have seen:
The sun, when first he kissed away the tears... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
- 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: 1001010111 0111110101 11010101001 10010010101 0100010011 0101010101 0101001101 1111001110 10111101111 100000101010 1101010101 11010101010 1101010101 1001000111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; its, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word its is repeated.
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