This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lix: Unhappy Pen that begins with:
Unhappy pen and ill-accepted papers,
That intimate in vain my chaste desires, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaababcdcdcc
- 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: 01011101010 11000111010 110100101010 10010101010 010101100010 1111010011 010101010010 0101110001 1111010111 1111110111 1110110110 01001010101 1111110111 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and is repeated.
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