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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