This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Viii: There's Nothing Grieves Me that begins with:

There's nothing grieves me, but that Age should haste,
That in my days I may not see thee old, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeeedd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1101111111 1011111111 11111100111 1011111101 1101100101 0101011111 1101111101 110101111 1111010111 1101110101 1101101111 1111111111 11111111011 11111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 666
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; that, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, thy are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).

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