This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Viii that begins with:
If your eyes were not the color of the moon,
of a day full [here, interrupted by the baby waking -- continued about 26...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXX XcaX Xca XXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01101010001 001111010101010010011 1010 00110111110 0101010110101101 01011101 101010 11011101 0101110101 11000100101 1110111111 111111110110 1101001 1010011111001 011011101 0111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, not, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
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- summary of Sonnet Viii;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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