This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xvii: Stay, Speedy Time that begins with:
To Time
Stay, speedy Time, behold, before thou pass, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbaabXXaccabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 01 1101010111 0101111101 101101100 0111011001 1110001001 1111001101 1011000100 1011110101 1110010010 1111110110 1011011111 0011011101 1101110101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, in, thou are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines glass is repeated).
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