This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 81: Oh Kiss, Which Dost that begins with:
Oh kiss, which dost those ruddy gems impart,
Or gems, or fruits of new-found Paradise, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abac caca ccdXbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111110101 1111011101 1011110001 1011010101 11111010101 1101110101 1111110111 1011111111 1101010111 1101110101 1111110100 1111111111 1110011101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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