This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Liv: Yet Read At Last that begins with:
Yet read at last the story of my woe,
The dreary abstracts of my endless cares, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcXcdedebb
- 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: 1111010011 0101001101 0111010001 1011110011 01010001100 1001010101 1101010100 0111111101 0100111101 1111010011 1111111111 1110001101 1111010111 110101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- 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, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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More information about poems by Michael Drayton
- Analysis of Sonnet Xi: You Not Alone
- Analysis of Sonnet Vi: How Many Paltry Things
- Analysis of Sonnet Lix: As Love And I
