This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet: Political Greatness that begins with:
Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame,
Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill in arms or arts,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcdcXcede
- 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: 1100110011 1111110111 1011110011 1101110011 10001011011 1101100101 10010011101 10110001100 0111011101 1111011110 11010000100 1001010001 1100100100 0111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- 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; nor is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, must are repeated.
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