This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet -- The Tear that begins with:
AH! LUST'ROUS GEM, bright emblem of the Heart,
That nobly scorns a borrow'd ray to share,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba XcXc dedeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110001 1101011101 1101110101 11010010101 10010101100 10101001001 1001010101 1011010111 10110101011 1111001101 1101110101 10101010101 1101011101 1101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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