This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet I that begins with:
NOR judge me light, tho' light at times I seem,
And lightly in the stress of fortune bear... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadbcdbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111111 1100010101 001000101001 1111101101 1001010101 11010110001 1101010101 00110101001 1101101001 01011101001 1101110101 1101110111 1100111001 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- 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, light are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word shall is repeated.
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