This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 100: Oh Tears, No Tears that begins with:
Oh tears, no tears, but rain from Beauty's skies,
Making those lilies and those roses grow, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX abba aac ddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 1011011101 1111111111 1101010100 11001101111 1111100101 1011110101 1101011111 1101010101 1100011011 1111001101 1111110011 1011011101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
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