This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxviii: Sitting Alone, Love that begins with:
Sitting alone, Love bids me go and write;
Reason plucks back, commanding me to stay, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcaaccddcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111111 1011010101 1011110101 1110010010 110101101 110101100 1101010001 1101010110 1010000101 10011101010 11010101010 10011111001 1011110101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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