This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxv: O Why Should Nature that begins with:
O why should Nature niggardly restrain
That foreign nations relish not our tongue? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabXbXcdcXdd
- 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: 1111010001 1101010111 1111110101 1101001101 1101010111 1111100100 1111110001 1011010101 1101011101 01110100111 1101110011 1101010100 1111010101 111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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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