This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lvii: Like As The Lute that begins with:
Like as the lute that joys or else dislikes
As in his art that plays upon the same, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddbabee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101111101 1001110101 1111010111 1111111001 0111010001 1111001001 0101010101 1101110001 111110011 1101110101 0101010111 1101010101 1101110101 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- 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; as is repeated.
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