This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 96: Thought, With Good Cause that begins with:
Thought, with good cause thou lik'st so well the Night,
Since kind or chance gives both one livery, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca acba dedXeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111101 1111111100 1101110100 1101101111 1001010101 1100011101 1101100100 1101110101 01010000100 010100101001 01110110100 1101110111 1111110111 11110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; both, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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