This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Viii that begins with:
I live, I burn, I drown and I die
I endure at once chill and cold;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba acca deeXdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 111111111 10111111 101111101 1110111111 10011110111 1101011011 0101011101 10011110001 1110100100 111111011 011000101 111100100 1110110101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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