This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 59: Dear, Why Make You More that begins with:
Dear, why make you more of a dog than me?
If he do love, I burn, I burn in love; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdcXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111100111 0111111101 0111110111 0101110110 1010110101 1111111111 1001110101 1110111101 1111011101 1111110101 01011101101 0101110101 0101111111 0101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; if, i, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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