This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xlix: How Long that begins with:
How long shall I in mine affliction mourn,
A burden to myself, distress'd in mind? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacadadcc
- 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: 1111010101 0100110101 1111010101 0101011101 1101011001 0101010101 1111010001 0101110101 10010111110 01001101001 11011110010 1011110101 11110111010 11101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, love are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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