This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Ix: If This Be Love that begins with:
If this be love, to draw a weary breath,
Paint on floods, till the shore, cry to th'air, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcdedeaa
- 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: 0001010101 111101101 0101110101 01010001101 0001010111 11011101111 0101010101 10011111011 0001011011 1010010101 1101010101 1011110111 0001010101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, my are repeated.
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