This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 99: When Far-Spent Night that begins with:
When far-spent night persuades each mortal eye,
To whom nor art nor nature granted light, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc abbc ddX dee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011101 0111110101 0101110101 1011001100 0101111111 1001010101 1011110101 001010101100 1111111110 1100010101 11100101001 0101110111 1111100101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- 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.
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