This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Ii: Go, Wailing Verse that begins with:

Go, wailing verse, the infants of my love,
Minerva-like, brought forth without a Mother: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101010011 01011101010 0101000111 10110101110 1101000101 0101010001 0100110101 1101111101 100111111 1110101010 1001100110 10010100110 11111111110 11101101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

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