This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xiii: Behold What Hap that begins with:

Behold what hap Pygmalion had to frame
And carve his proper grief upon a stone; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddededd
  • 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: 0111110101 1101010101 1101001101 1111110111 11011011010 1101010011 010101101 1101011101 1111010101 0011011101 1101011011 1001110111 11011100111 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 584
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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