This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets - Ad Innuptam that begins with:

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I MAKE not my division of the hours ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcdadaXefedd X bebecgcgdedeaa X bhbhfafXijijkk X dedebabaaeaell a mamalblbnXnbaa a egeghdhdhahaee X nbnbklklXfXfee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11110100010 1101110101 11010101010 00111010101 0111010011 110011001001 0111110111 11011111001 11010111110 1111010011 1101001001 10101000101 11110011001 111110101 1 0101010101 1101010101 1110010111 1111010101 11011100001 1101010111 1101111011 1101000101 1111110011 1101001101 1101111101 1101010111 0101110111 1101110111 1 11011100101 1101010001 0111001101 1101010101 11110101011 1101100101 1100110011 1101110100 1111011101 1101010101 1111111101 0011100101 11111100101 1101011101 1 1101010011 11110100001 0101010101 1101110111 1110010101 0100010011 1011011101 1111110101 110101000 0100110101 1101010001 1101011101 1101110011 1101010101 1 1111010101 011110001 1101010101 0101010001 1011010111 1100100101 1101010101 1111010111 1111110101 11110101100 1111110101 110111010010 1101110111 1101010111 1 1111111100 0111011101 101010010101 1101110001 10010010101 11001010101 1101010101 0101100111 1101110101 1101010001 1001010111 0101010101 11011001010 01010101110 1 1111000101 1001001101 1101011101 00111000110 1101010111 0111010101 110101001 0101010001 01010101001 101100101001 0101010101 01010001001 1101010101 11111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 677
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 111
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, some, now are repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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