This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xvi: Mongst All The Creatures that begins with:
An Allusion to the Phoenix
'Mongst all the creatures in this spacious round ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbabccbdeedaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10100010 1101000101 0011010001 1111010101 1101110101 1100011101 01010011010 11010111010 1111010010 101101101 01110101010 01010111010 1011010101 1111100101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- 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.
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