This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets that begins with:

ENAMOURED ARCHITECT OF AIRY RHYME
ENAMOURED architect of airy rhyme,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a abbaabbacadcad X deeddeedfdXfdg e hiihhiihhdbhdb X bjbjgagaeieikk X heehheehiddidd XXgffggffgcdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10001010101 10001010101 1111111111 0111000101 0111011101 1001011101 11110011111 1101011101 1100110001 11011110101 1111011111 11111111010 1011010101 0111011011 11110111110 1010 1111000101 11010010111 1011010101 1010010101 1111001111 1100010111 10111101101 1111110101 1101001111 1011010101 0101011101 01001111101 1001010101 1001111101 101 1101101101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1001110101 1011111101 1011010111 1101010111 1111011111 1101110101 1101000101 10111010101 1001000111 10111110101 0100 0111111101 0101100111 0111100101 1111110101 0100010101 11010111001 1110010011 0111010011 1101011101 1001000101 1111010111 1111010101 1011110101 0101111111 0101010 0101110101 1111010101 11010001101 0100010111 1101101101 1111110101 01010010101 1101011011 11100000101 1101010111 1101110101 1001010101 1111110111 1101010100 1 1011110101 1001100101 1111100101 0101110111 0111011111 1111001001 11010110111 0111010101 1101111111 0101111101 0101111101 1011011101 1101000111 1000111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, as, and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words enamoured, build, a, and, to, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words enamoured, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rhyme is repeated).

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  • summary of Sonnets;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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