This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xlvi: Plain-Path'D Experience that begins with:
Plain-path'd Experience, th'unlearned's guide,
Her simple followers evidently shows ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacadedeaa
- 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: 11001001001 01010010001 0111010101 1111010101 0101000101 0011000101 1011010001 10101010101 1101111111 1101000111 0101110101 1101011001 1100110101 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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More information about poems by Michael Drayton
- Analysis of Sonnet Xviii: To This Our World
- Analysis of Sonnet Lx: Define My Weal
- Analysis of Sonnet Xlv: Muses, Which Sadly Sit
