This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 66: And Do I See Some Cause that begins with:
And do I see some cause a hope to feed,
Or doth the tedious burden of long woe ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab XcX cdd
- 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: 1111110101 11010010011 0101110101 01001011101 1101011101 1011010111 1111111111 01011010111 1101110110 1011111111 1011010101 1011111101 1111101101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of is repeated.
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