This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xlviii: My Cynthia that begins with:
My Cynthia hath the waters of mine eyes
The ready handmaids on her grace attending ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001010011 01010101010 1101011101 10111101110 1010001110 01010010111 11010001110 1100011100 1101011111 11110111010 1111010001 11110101110 11011100110 11110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 628
- 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.
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