This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxv: And Yet I Cannot that begins with:
And yet I cannot reprehend the flight,
Or blame th'attempt presuming so to soar; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbccdcdaa
- 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: 1111010001 1110010101 0101010101 0101000101 1111111001 1011010111 1011010101 1110110101 0111011101 0101011101 1011010101 1001010101 1111010111 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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