This is an analysis of the poem To The Reader Of These Sonnets that begins with:
Into these Loves who but for Passion looks,
At this first sight here let him lay them by ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbXbcdcdee
- 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: 0011111101 1011111101 1111010101 1101010101 1111110111 1011011101 1011110101 0101100011 1100110011 10010101001 1110010001 10110100011 1101000101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 579
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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