This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxviii: To Such As Say that begins with:
To such as say thy love I overprize,
And do not stick to term my praises folly, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdcdXebeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0111111100 11110111010 0111110111 11011101010 1111110111 0101010111 11010101001 1101011101 1101100101 1111011111 1111111101 101101111 0101110101 0101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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