This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xli: When Men Shall Find that begins with:
When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass,
And thou with carefull brow sitting alone, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedeff
- 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: 11111101101 11010011001 011010011 1111111101 11110101110 11110101010 11111101110 11111110110 0111010001 11011110101 1111101111 1111011101 1101111111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; thy, thou, in are repeated.
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