This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry that begins with:

Let not my love be called idolatry,
Nor my belovèd as an idol show,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcdedeff
  • 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: 1111010100 111000011101 1101111100 0101111101 1011010111 1100010100 1111010001 1101011100 101110011100 1011101000101 1001010101 1101110101 1111110101 1111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • 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; my, and are repeated.

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

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