This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxvi: Raising My Hopes that begins with:
Raising my hopes on hills of high desire,
Thinking to scale the heaven of her heart, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbacbcbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10111101010 1001010001 1101011101 0100011101 11110101010 1111001101 0110110111 011011111110 1101110100 1101010001 010011011 1101010101 0101010111 11010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- 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; of, her are repeated.
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