This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 70: My Muse May Well Grudge that begins with:
My Muse may well grudge at my heav'nly joy,
If still I force her in sad rimes to creep: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb abab cac add
- 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: 1111111101 0111001101 1111111110 10011110111 1001110001 1011111101 11110100001 1101111101 1111111001 0111110101 1111110111 1101111111 1111111100 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- 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; my, as, to are repeated.
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