This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xiii: Phoebus Was Judge that begins with:
Phoebus was judge between Jove, Mars, and Love,
Of those three gods, whose arms the fairest were: ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXba baab cdd cee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011011111 0111110100 10101010101 1101110101 1011110101 1101010101 1101110101 1001010101 1001110111 1011011101 11010110101 1011010001 0111110101 0111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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