This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxiv: The Star Of My Mishap that begins with:
The star of my mishap impos'd this paining,
To spend the April of my years in wailing ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaababaXabacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01011101010 01010010010 11011101010 01111011010 10111111111 11100111010 11000111011 111101110100 10111111010 110011101110 11111111011 1001111110 1011110001 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 628
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, and are repeated.
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