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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