This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 92: Be Your Words Made that begins with:
Be your words made, good sir, of Indian ware,
That you allow me them by so small rate?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01110101001 1101101111 1111010101 1111110101 1011011101 110101101 1110110101 1111110111 1111010111 1111011111 1001110011 0111110101 0011010111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, she, how are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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