This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet that begins with:
Whom the gods love die young ! The happiest time
Comes first, 'twere better not to live the rest ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccdedeff
- 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: 10111101001 1111010101 1100010011 1111011100 11110111010 11010001001 11010101010 1101010011 1011010101 11010011101 1101010101 1111010111 1111110101 1101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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- summary of Sonnet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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