This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xv: Since To Obtain Thee that begins with:
His Remedy for Love
Since to obtain thee nothing will be stead, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a babaXbXbXcXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 010011 1001110001 1101011111 01000111101 11110111001 1001110111 1101110001 1001010101 110101101 0001110101 1101010101 0111011001 0100010100 000111010011 10111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; ne'er, her, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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