This is an analysis of the poem Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck (Sonnet 14) that begins with:

Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck,
And yet methinks I have astronomy;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1001111101 1110110100 1101001101 0101110100 1111001101 1001010111 1101000111 1101110101 1011110101 1101001111 1111010101 0010011110 1101011101 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • 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; of is repeated.

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