This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 48: Soul's Joy, Bend Not that begins with:
Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me,
Where Virtue is made strong by Beauty's might, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX abba ccdXbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 1100111101 11010011101 1100110100 1101011110 1100010011 1111011011 1111111111 1111110001 1111110101 11001111101 1111100101 1101111101 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; oh, let are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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