This is an analysis of the poem The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iii: Gods And False Gods: Lxxv that begins with:

THE SAME CONTINUED
And then fate strikes us. First our joys decay.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaacacdbedbee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010 1111111101 1001000111 1101010111 1101011101 0111110011 1101110111 1111110111 1101100100 0111010101 1111011111 1111110101 1001010111 1101011101 1101011101 1011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 673
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; our, we, and are repeated.

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

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