This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xliii: Why Should Your Fair Eyes that begins with:
Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace
Disperse their rays on every vulgar spirit, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111101101 011111001010 1101000111 11110101110 1101010101 1101010001 1101110101 0101000101 1111010001 0111010111 1110110011 1111010111 1001101001 1111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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