This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xliv: O Be Not Griev'D that begins with:
O be not griev'd that these my papers should
Betray unto the world how fair thou art, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaXaXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1011111101 0110011111 1111110111 010111011 1111001011 11111101010 1101010011 110111010010 1101010101 100011010100 1101111101 100101011000 11110010111 11010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; that, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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