This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 53: In Martial Sports that begins with:

In martial sports I had my cunning tried,
And yet to break more staves did me address: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba Xbba 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: 0101111101 1101110111 1001011101 1111111101 1101010110 01010010001 1111111111 1111111101 1111010111 11110110011 1101011001 1101111101 1111110111 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; i is repeated.

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