This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxx: Whether The Turkish New Moon that begins with:
Whether the Turkish new moon minded be
To fill his horns this year on Christian coast; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX abba 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: 1001011100 0101011101 1101110101 01011101100 0111110101 1101011101 1101110101 1001010101 1101011101 10011011011 0001101101 1101010111 11000010101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- 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; in is repeated.
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