This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxix: Some, When In Rhyme that begins with:
Some, when in rhyme they of their loves do tell,
With flames and lightnings their exordiums paint; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXdadaXX
- 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: 1101101111 0111011001 1111110011 1111001101 01000110111 1011011100 0111011100 1111111101 1010011001 111110111 11011100101 1111000101 1111010110 10111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- 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; some, their, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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