This is an analysis of the poem The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: Xxi that begins with:

HIS BONDAGE TO MANON IS BROKEN
From this day forth I lead another life,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcbcbcdXdXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 010001010 0011110101 0101010101 0111000101 1101110101 1111010001 1101010111 01111010001 0111001101 11111110011 0111010001 1101011101 1101111100 1011110111 1111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 595
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; life, my, i, too are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.

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