This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 10: For Shame, Deny That Thou Bear'st Love To Any that begins with:
For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any
Who for thy self art so unprovident.... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabbcXcdedeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011111010 1111111000 101111010010 1111101100 1111010101 11111110010 101101010 10011011010 1111111111 1101011101 0111001011 1011111101 1101011101 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 629
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; thou, to, thy are repeated.
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