This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet X: To Nothing Fitter that begins with:
To nothing fitter can I thee compare
Than to the son of some rich penny-father, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcececc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0101011101 10010111010 1101110101 10011111010 0111010001 0111110101 1111010101 1011011101 1110010011 11110110011 1110100101 11110101011 1011010111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, thy are repeated.
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