This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xix: You Cannot Love that begins with:
To Humor
You cannot love, my pretty heart, and why? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcadadefefdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 010 1101110111 1101111111 1101100101 0011110111 10111110110 1111111011 10110110110 1011111111 1101111101 1010110101 1111110111 1101110101 11110011111 11011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, what are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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