This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 51: Pardon Mine Ears that begins with:
Pardon mine ears, both I and they do pray,
So may your tongue still fluently proceed, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba ccc cXa
- 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: 1011111111 1111110001 0011110101 1111111101 1101110101 0101101111 1111010101 01010110101 1111100101 0101001101 0101110101 1111010101 10101111100 1101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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