This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 90: Stella, Think Not That I that begins with:
Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame,
Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa abba cdc dee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011111111 1111111111 1111111100 0111110101 1101011101 0111011101 0111111110 10011010101 11011111101 1101011111 0111010111 1100111011 1111110101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; who, in, i are repeated.
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