This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 74: I Never Drank that begins with:
I never drank of Aganippe well,
Nor ever did in shade of Tempe sit, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab cdc dcX
- 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: 110101001 1100010101 1101010101 1101110101 111101101 1111111110 1011110101 1111100101 1101101111 1111111111 0111111111 1101100111 1111111100 11110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, it are repeated.
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