This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 37: My Mouth Doth Water that begins with:
My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell,
My tongue doth itch, my thoughts in labor be: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdc dXX
- 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: 1111011111 1111110100 1011000101 1011110101 0110010111 1011011111 1011010111 1001101101 1001000101 1001000101 1011111001 11110111001 1101001101 1101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, doth, in, rich are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, rich are repeated.
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