This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Iv: These Plaintive Verses that begins with:
These plaintive verses, the Posts of my desire,
Which haste for succour to her slow regard: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXcdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110100101010 1111000101 11010101010 10010101001 11110101101 11110110110 1001110111 101111110110 1111011101 1111000101 1101010101 0011010100 1111100111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- 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; my is repeated.
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More information about poems by Samuel Daniel
- Analysis of Sonnet Lix: Unhappy Pen
- Analysis of Sonnet Liii: Drawn
- Analysis of Delia: Xxxi (1592 Version): Look, Delia, How We 'steem The
