This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxiii: Time, Cruel Time that begins with:
Time, cruel Time, come and subdue that brow
Which conquers all but thee, and thee, too, stays ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbbXcbcdd
- 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: 1101110111 1101111111 1010010111 0110100001 1111010111 1111100111 1111010100 10100111111 11111101100 1111111101 11000101001 1011100101 1101100100 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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