This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet On The Author's Birthday that begins with:
SING on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough,
Sing on, sweet bird, I listen to thy strain,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abba Xccd effe Xdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 1111110011 111010101 1111010101 1011000101 1110011001 1001010101 1101110111 11110001001 11111111011 1001111101 1111011101 1111010011 011101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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