This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Vii: When Nature that begins with:
When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes,
In color black why wrapp'd she beams so bright? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab cXc Xdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101011101 0101111111 1101011101 1101010111 1011110101 0101011111 1011111001 1111110101 11100100101 1011110100 11001111101 1111110110 1101110101 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she is repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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