This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxiii: Whilst Yet Mine Eyes that begins with:
To Imagination
Whilst yet mine Eyes do surfeit with delight, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaaabababcbcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 001010 1111110001 1101010011 100001011 1011110101 1111110011 1011010101 1101010011 1001111011 1101110101 1100010101 1101010101 00110100011 1101100100 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my, that, heart are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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