This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxix: Like Some Weak Lords that begins with:
Like some weak lords, neighbor'd by mighty kings,
To keep themselves and their chief cities free, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba aXbX acc dad
- 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: 11111001101 0101111101 11001111110 1001110101 11011011011 0101011100 1101100011 1101010100 1101011101 1101010101 0101100101 0101010101 1111101101 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- 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; their, her, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
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