This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xv: If That A Loyal Heart that begins with:

If that a loyal heart and faith unfeign'd,
If a sweet languish with a chaste desire, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xababcbcdedeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01010111100 00110001010 0101011101 11011101010 10010110010 10110101110 00110111010 11011101110 0111110001 1111110101 0101111101 1110011101 100101111 0100110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; if, with, my, her, and are repeated.

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

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