This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxi: If Beauty Thus Be Clouded that begins with:
If Beauty thus be clouded with a frown,
That pity shines no comfort to my bliss, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaaaaabcbcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010001 1101110011 1100011100 1111110100 1111010101 0101010101 1111001101 10010010101 0111010111 1111010100 1111011101 1011010101 1101111111 0111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; with is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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