This is an analysis of the poem Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet Liv that begins with:

Because I breathe not love to every one,
Nor do not use set colours for to wear,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcdcdee
  • 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: 01111101001 1111110101 110101011 1111011001 0101010001 0010111101 1010110110111 1101111110000 1111110111 0101111101 1111110111 1011011001 11110011101 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 650
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • 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; nor is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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