This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Viii: Thou Poor Heart that begins with:
Thou poor heart sacrific'd unto the fairest,
Hast sent the incense of thy sighs to heav'n; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXababcdcdee
- 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: 11110110010 1100101101 11010111100 1111000101 1111010011 1011001101 1101010101 0101010101 1111010001 1101011011 1111011101 1111010111 11111111110 11011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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More information about poems by Samuel Daniel
- Analysis of Sonnet Xxii: Come Time
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- Analysis of Sonnet Vii: O Had She Not Been Fair
