This is an analysis of the poem XXIX. 'Speak not of waning love and changing days' that begins with:
Speak not of waning love and changing days,
Youth may be short and life may not endure,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbabaab cbbacA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011101 1101111101 10011000101 1101010111 1011000101 0111011101 0101110101 1011111101 0111001101 1101111001 1101011001 0110011111 0111111111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i is repeated.
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