This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet V. To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses that begins with:

As late I rambled in the happy fields,
What time the skylark shakes the tremulous dew... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXcdcdX
  • 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: 1111000101 11011101001 0011010101 01001111101 11010101101 0111110111 01010101001 1001110101 1111010100 1101010101 1111110101 1101100011 1101110101 1001111100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 629
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.

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