This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xx: Fly, Fly, My Friends that begins with:

Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound; fly!
See there that boy, that murthering boy I say, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa aaaa bcb cdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111111111 11111100111 1101101111 1101011101 1101110111 1111001101 1111110101 1010011111 1100111110 1110010001 1111010111 1111100101 1110010001 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; fly, so are repeated.

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