This is an analysis of the poem Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet Xviii that begins with:

Nor were the rest astonished. Even he,
Natalia's lord, in all complacent grace... full text

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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: 1001010101 1001010101 1101000111 1100010101 1101111001 1111010011 00110011111 1011011101 01011110110 1101110100 10111111010 0101000101 1101010101 0101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 595
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and is repeated.

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