This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 10: Reason that begins with:
Reason, in faith thou art well serv'd, that still
Wouldst brabbling be with sense and love in me: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab baba cXc Xdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1001111111 1100011101 1101110101 1101010101 1111110101 1111110101 1111110100 11010011100 1111110111 0101101010 1111011101 1111110101 10111100101 1100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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