This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xi: Tears, Vows, And Prayers that begins with:
Tears, vows, and prayers win the hardest heart:
Tears, vows, and prayers have I spent in vain; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 111110101 111111101 1101011110 101100101 1111111111 11111101010 1101010001 11011100010 1111010001 1111010111 111100111 1101010101 1011110101 1101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; tears, prayers, vows, i, my, faith, though are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tears, i, though are repeated.
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