This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xviii: With What Sharp Checks that begins with:
With what sharp checks I in myself am shent,
When into Reason's audit I do go: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab baac dcd cee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111101111 1001010111 1111110101 0101110111 01010110101 1100111111 1101100111 1111111101 1111110111 1111110001 1101100101 1111011111 1111110101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; my, doth are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, i are repeated.
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