Poem Analysis of Sonnet 47: What, Have I Thus Betray'D by Sir Philip Sidney for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 47: What, Have I Thus Betray'D that begins with:

What, have I thus betray'd my liberty?
Can those black beams such burning marks engrave In my free side? or am I born a slave, ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aba abbX XcX cdd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,3,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 1111011100 11111101010111111101 1101110100 1111011100 1101010101 1111110111 1111110100 1001101100 1111111011 11001100101 1011111110 0111111111 1111101101
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 13
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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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Sonnet 47: What, Have I Thus Betray'D by Sir Philip Sidney: poem analysis

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