This is an analysis of the poem The Guest - Sonnet that begins with:
I have discovered my deep deathless being:
Masked by my front of mind, immense, serene...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dede ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 11010111010 1111010101 01010110010 0110000101 1111000111 11111101010 10111011011 110110101001 0111110011 0001010011 100010000101 11011100101 1101110101 1111000100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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