This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 03 that begins with:
Not to thee Bedford mournful is the tale
Of days departed. Time in his career... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccccdccdcc
- 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: 1011010001 0101010001 1011100101 1101010001 00110010101 0101011111 1011110101 1101110101 1101010001 01001100101 0101111111 1101010101 1101000101 0101011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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 03;
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