This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xlv: Muses, Which Sadly Sit that begins with:
Muses, which sadly sit about my chair,
Drown'd in the tears extorted by my lines, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdbbbbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1011010111 1001010111 0101111101 1011001101 1101011101 0111000101 1011110011 0101110101 0111011101 1101101111 10100100111 11110010111 1011110101 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
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