This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxviii: I Once May See that begins with:
I once may see when years shall wreck my wrong,
When golden hairs shall change to silver wire, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbacdXdcd
- 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: 1111101111 11011101010 11111101010 1101110111 1101010011 11001011101 11110101010 11110110111 1011010001 1110010101 1111110111 1111111101 11001110101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 655
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; her, she are repeated.
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