This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet. If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'D that begins with:
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abXabXcabcdede
- 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: 0111110101 1101000101 1001011000 1111011001 1011010101 010101010 1101011101 01001111101 11010010101 1001110011 1100010110 1001100111 1011110101 1001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 574
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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, of are repeated.
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