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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