This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxii: Like As The Spotless Ermelin that begins with:
To M. P.
Like as the spotless Ermelin distress'd, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababacacdedeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 011 1101010001 10001011101 1001010001 1101010100 11100000101 1001011111 1101011111 1111110101 1110111101 0111011101 1111101101 1111101111 1101000110 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, my, self are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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