This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 106: Oh Absent Presence that begins with:

Oh absent presence, Stella is not here;
False flattering Hope, that with so fair a face ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba abba ccd eed
  • 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: 1101010011 11001101101 1101100101 1011110101 11011101101 11111111001 1111111101 1111011101 1111101101 1101010101 1011011101 1101110111 1101111100 1001111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; stella, thou are repeated.

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