This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Vii: How Soon Hath Time, The Subtle Thief Of Youth that begins with:
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stoln on his wing my three and twentieth year! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbXcdedce
- 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: 1111010101 11011111001 1101111101 11101111101 0111010101 1101110111 11010011101 11110101010 1001111111 01010101010 0111110111 011111100010 1001110101 1100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; my, or are repeated.
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