This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet From The Portuguese Of Semedo that begins with:
It is a fearful night; a feeble glare
Streams from the sick moon in the o'erclouded sky;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0001010101 100110010001 0101000101 1101010111 1101000101 0101011111 1101011111 1101111101 1101000111 1111110111 0100010111 0111110111 1111010101 1101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 588
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- 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; my is repeated.
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