This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 75: Of All The Kings that begins with:
Of all the kings that ever here did reign,
Edward nam'd Fourth, as first in praise I name; ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab baba 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: 0101110101 1011110111 1101111111 1111110111 1111111101 01001100101 1111111111 1101110101 1111010111 1101010101 11010010101 1011110111 1101010111 0101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; nor, that are repeated.
The author used the same word nor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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