This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 43: Fair Eyes, Sweet Lips that begins with:
Fair eyes, sweet lips, dear heart, that foolish I
Could hope by Cupid's help on you to prey; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa Xaaa XbX bcc
- 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: 1111111101 1111011101 1001111101 10111111001 1110111111 1011111111 1111110101 1010110101 1101100110 1101111011 0101110101 111011101 0101010101 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; he is repeated.
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