This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Vi: Fair Is My Love that begins with:
Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair;
Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1011110111 01111101110 0111010101 10011101010 01011001010 1111110111 01001111010 1011010101 10011011101 110110101 1111001101 1111011101 1111011101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 641
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; her, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
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