This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 86: Alas, Whence Come This Change Of Looks? that begins with:
Alas, whence come this change of looks? If I
Have chang'd desert, let mine own conscience be ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa aaXa bcb Xcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010101 1110111100 0111010101 1111111111 1011110101 1011110101 1011000100 0101010101 1111111111 0101111111 1011111111 1101010110 1111111111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- 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: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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