This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 42: Oh Eyes, Which Do The Spheres that begins with:
Oh eyes, which do the spheres of beauty move,
Whose beams be joys, whose joys all virtues be, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac acab XXX Xdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 1101111100 1111110101 0111011100 11110111001 1011010100 1111101101 1111010111 1111010110 11010101010 1111111111 1001000101 0101011101 1100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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