This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxviii: Weak Is The Sophistry that begins with:
Weak is the sophistry, and vain the art
That whispers patience to the mind's despair!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- 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: 1001001101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010001 0011110101 101110001 1011010001 1101111111 1001010101 1011001101 01010111000 1101110101 11111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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