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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