This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxxi: Who Will In Fairest Book that begins with:
Who will in fairest book of nature know
How virtue may best lodg'd in beauty be,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXXbacdcdXX
- 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: 1001010101 1101110100 1111010101 1011111101 1111110101 1111110100 0100111111 1101011101 1110001001 1011111101 1101100111 1111011101 1111011100 110001011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 647
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, to are repeated.
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