This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxiii: The Curious Wits that begins with:
The curious wits seeing dull pensiveness
Bewray itself in my long settled eyes, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab baab cbc bdd
- 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: 010011011000 1001011101 1111010101 0101110111 11111011011 1111110101 1001011101 1111110001 1101011001 1001110101 11111000101 1111010101 0111110111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, that are repeated.
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