This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet I: Unto The Boundless Ocean that begins with:
Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty
Runs this poor river, charg'd with streams of zeal: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdedeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10010100110 1011010101 01010100110 1111111101 1110010111 1111100111 1111111101 1101111111 1101100011 1111110011 0101110011 1111110101 10111001110 11110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 640
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, i, here are repeated.
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