This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxv: The Wisest Scholar that begins with:
The wisest scholar of the wight most wise
By Phoebus' doom, with sugar'd sentence says, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa Xaaa XbX bcc
- 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: 0101000111 1101010101 1100011011 1101001111 1111010110 1111010101 1110110111 11010010101 10010100101 1001110111 0101110100 0011111001 1011001111 1110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- 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.
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