This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 62: Late, Tir'D With Woe that begins with:

Late tir'd with woe, ev'n ready for to pine,
With rage of love, I call'd my love unkind; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab abab Xcd cXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 11001110101 0101111101 1011111011 1111110011 11011110111 1110110111 1111111101 0101111111 1111010100 1111001101 1101111101 0100010100 0111011100 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; love is repeated.

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