This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Vii that begins with:
I had made my round, as yet with little gain
Of undiscovered good in that gay place.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 11111110101 0101000111 11111010101 1011111101 11111010001 11010001001 1111110111 1111001101 11101111101 1001010101 0111110101 0011010101 0111011101 1111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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