This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xviii: To This Our World that begins with:
To the Celestial Numbers
To this our world, to Learning, and to Heav'n, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaaXXbbXXaaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0001010 0011010101 11110100101 110001010101 1101111101 1101010001 1101010110 1001110100 1101000101 11010111010 1111111001 1101001101 01110111010 1111011101 11001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- 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; to, my, nine are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, one, nine, and are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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