This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxiii that begins with:
Nor later, when with her my childhood died,
Was life less sealed to me. The Church became... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaXXXcbcbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101001111 1111010101 11001110101 1101101101 0100111001 11110111010 1101010100 1111010101 0111011101 1011010111 1100010101 1111001101 00101010101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 588
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; and, in are repeated.
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