This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xx: An Evil Spirit that begins with:
An evil spirit, your beauty haunts me still,
Wherewith, alas, I have been long possest, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbXbXcdcdaa
- 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: 11010110111 10001110110 1101011011 1111111101 0101101111 1111010111 0101110111 1101010100 0111011101 11011100101 1101011101 1101001111 111101010010 100101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; me, it, my are repeated.
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