This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 12 that begins with:
XII. On the same.
I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXaXXXaXbaXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1101 1011010111 101101010 11010010101 01011010111 1111100101 111001110 1101011101 1001110101 11110011001 1101111101 101111110 1111110110 1011111111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and is repeated.
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