This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxiii: Truce, Gentle Love that begins with:
Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave;
Methinks 'tis long since first these wars begun; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbbdbdbb
- 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: 1101010111 1011111110 1111010111 1001110101 1101010011 1111010101 0111011101 1111111101 1011110111 1101010011 1111110011 1011011011 1101010101 1100010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 615
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- 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.
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