This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxiii: My Cares Draw that begins with:
My cares draw on mine everlasting night;
In horror's sable clouds sets my life's sun; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeaeaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111110101 0101011111 1111110101 0111011101 1101100101 0010100111 11010101101 1111010101 0101111111 1101110111 0111110001 1111110001 1101110101 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; my, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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