This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet V: Whilst Youth And Error that begins with:
Whilst youth and error led my wand'ring mind
And set my thoughts in heedless ways to range, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcacdedeaa
- 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: 1111011101 1111010101 1101010111 0101011101 10110111100 1001011011 0101010101 1101010111 1111000101 1101111101 1111111111 1111011011 1111001101 1110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 615
- 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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word which is repeated.
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