This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet I: Loving In Truth that begins with:

Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
That she (dear She) might take some pleasure of my pain: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab abab cdc dXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 100111011101 111111110011 101101101101 101101110101 111101010101 1000101010101 110101010111 1111010011111 111101101001 010101111101 110111110011 110101110011 101101101111 10011101100111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; might, to are repeated.

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