This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 04 that begins with:
What tho' no sculptur'd monument proclaim
Thy fate-yet Albert in my breast I bear... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefeefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111010001 1111001111 10001010111 0111010101 0101011111 1101111101 1001111011 11001111001 1011000101 01010010111 110101010001 1011011101 0101110111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
- 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.
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