This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Li: I Must Not Grieve My Love that begins with:
I must not grieve my Love, whose eyes would read
Lines of delight, whereon her youth might smile; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXdcdcee
- 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: 1111111111 1001100111 10101011101 1101111101 1111010010 110101001110 1101010101 11111011010 1011010101 1101011111 1011110101 1011111101 1101111111 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 667
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and, smiles are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, pity are repeated.
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