Sir Thomas Wortley's Sonnet Answered by Richard Lovelace: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sir Thomas Wortley's Sonnet Answered that begins with:

[THE SONNET.
I.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bCccdCXdd XeeefXXfdX X bXXXaXfaXa XbbbgbbgXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,10,1,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 1 11 110110111 1101 1101011101 11 111010100 1101 110101110101 1 11 1111011111 111 1111111101 11 111001011 0101 1111010101 110110 010 1 10 110110110 1101 1111011101 10 0111010101 1111 1111110100 111101 1 11 1101110101 0111 0101111101 11 011110111 0101 10001110010 01001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines more, againe are repeated).

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