This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet On The Death Of Mr Richard West that begins with:

In vain to me the smiling mornings shine,
And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXbaccacaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101010101 11010101010 01011100101 110110111010 1101110110 010010111010 1101011111 10110010101 1101010101 11110101001 0101110101 0111010101 1101011101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 615
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; to is repeated.

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