This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 46: I Curs'D Thee Oft that begins with:
I curs'd thee oft, I pity now thy case,
Blind-hitting boy, since she that thee and me ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdc dee
- 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: 1111110111 1101111111 1001110001 1111111101 1101010101 0111011110 0111010111 01010010101 0111110101 0101001101 1111111111 1111010101 11110110010 10110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; thee, to, love are repeated.
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