This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 77: Those Looks, Whose Beams Be Joy that begins with:

Those looks, whose beams be joy, whose motion is delight,
That face, whose lecture shows what perfect beauty is: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abac acac bdbXdaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 111101110001 111101101100 110111110101 111101110111 111011111101 111111011101 11111111101101 111101001001 111101101001 110101111100 101011010101 11011111101 101111110101 111101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, whose, which, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.

    The author used the same word that at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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