This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xi: In Truth, Oh Love that begins with:
In truth, oh Love, with what a boyish kind
Thou doest proceed in thy most serious ways: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cbcXbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010101 11010111001 1101010101 1011110101 1101111111 0101110101 1101111101 1101010101 1111010100 1011110001 0011111111 1001011101 1011001101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; best, in, thou, her are repeated.
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