This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xli: Why Do I Speak Of Joy that begins with:
Love's Lunacy
Why do I speak of joy, or write of love, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdedeafXfcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1100 1111011101 11100101010 1011010111 01011101010 1111110101 1101010111 1101010011 11111000111 1101001100 1101110011 1101011101 1101011101 11010111010 11110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, now are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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