This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis that begins with:
Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud
Upon the top of Nevis, blind in mist!... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcacdbdbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101011101 0101010101 110001101 10011011111 11110111100 1101011011 1111010101 0101011101 1011011001 1101010111 1111101101 1110111111 0111110101 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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