This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lvi: When Like An Eaglet that begins with:
When like an eaglet I first found my Love,
For that the virtue I thereof would know, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXeceff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111011111 1101011111 0101110101 0000110111 1011011101 1101010101 0111110101 1101011101 11010101010 0101000101 1111010101 0111110101 1011101101 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, and are repeated.
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