This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets On Miss Savage that begins with:
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She was too kind, wooed too persistently,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaabcbcdedebb X cecedcdccfcfgg X dcdccacahbhbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1111110100 1101001111 0111010111 0111011101 1111111111 11101111101 1111111101 1111011101 1111111111 1011011001 1111000101 1011110111 1110110111 1111100101 1 1111001111 11011010011 10011111001 1101111100 1111111101 01111111110 1011101101 100110111110 1110010111 1101110111 0101110011 1001101111 1111111111 0110011011 1 1101110100 0111111101 1101110101 1111110101 11001111001 1111111101 1101010111 1100110101 1111001001 01001101110 1110110101 01110101110 1101110101 11111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, not, and, wrong, if, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she are repeated.
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More information about poems by Samuel Butler
- Analysis of Hudibras: Part 1 - Canto I
- Analysis of The Metaphysical Sectarian
- Analysis of Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto Iii
