This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 08 that begins with:
With many a weary step, at length I gain
Thy summit, Lansdown; and the cool breeze plays,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddceefggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01001011111 1101010111 1001111101 0101010101 10111100001 11001011101 01010100101 1100011101 10101010001 1011010111 1101110111 1111011101 1101111111 1100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- 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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