This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Vi: Some Lovers Speak that begins with:
Some lovers speak when they their Muses entertain,
Of hopes begot by fear, of wot not what desires: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xaba bbc ddc
- 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: 110111110101 0101110111010 010101010101 0101111111010 11010111011100 1000111100101 0101001010101 110101110101 010101010101 111101111101 010101110111 111111111111 111101011101 1100111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; of, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word some at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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